October 2004
When Adolescents Can't and Won't Read

“We make a serious mistake when we treat reading as if it were a set of isolated skills and processes, unknowingly creating the very reading problems that frustrate us as teachers."
David Bloome





February 2006

Supporting Struggling Readers in Content-Area Learning

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CONTENTS
Feature
"Complex Human Activities Taking Place in Complex Human Relationships"
by David Bloome
 
Classroom Vignettes
Working with Struggling Readers
by LeeAnn K. Binion
 
Creating a Recipe for Reading Success
by Tammy Burt
 
Student Voices
What Motivates Me as a Reader
 
A Look at the OGT
Informational Text and Author's Purpose
by Carol Brown Dodson
 
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Vocabulary for Content-Area Learning
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