More Resources on When Adolescents Can't and Won't Read

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This chapter from I Read It, but I Don't Get It offers practical ideas for engaging and motivating struggling readers. Written by Cris Tovani, an accomplished teacher and staff developer, the text documents the challenges of working with students who have mastered the art of "fake reading" and who struggle with the different demands of high school level textbooks and novels....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This literature review examines thirty years of research studies, then explores specifically those factors that affect contextual literacy development: gender, motivation, instructional strategies, engagement, parent involvement, and media and technology. This article, too, defines a pressing need for a literacy agenda that recognizes the developmental nature of reading and writing across all age groups and not one that is preoccupied almost totally with the literacy learning of young children....

Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: Drawn from the research of Judith Langer at the Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA), this resource examines how students think when they discuss literature and offers ideas on how to use classroom discourse to deepen students' thinking. The resource begins with an overview of the research study and a list of guiding questions, which...

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: In this professional article, accomplished Ohio educator and author Sharon Draper discusses the importance of independent reading and offers ideas for promoting the love of reading. Draper challenges schools and communities to work intensely and collaboratively to encourage young people to read more....

Projects: Standards First