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Active Literacy and Informational Text

"We look at what we see in print, whether it is hard copy or lines on a computer screen, and we question. We question whose viewpoint is being presented. We question what the author of that text wants us to think. We look at how alternative perspectives might be represented."
   Maureen McLaughlin





September 2004

Understanding Adolescent Literacy Learners

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CONTENTS
Feature
An Interview with Maureen McLaughlin About Critical Literacy
by Maureen McLaughlin
 
Classroom Vignettes
A Learner’s Point of View
by Carol Van Zalingen
 
We Must Use Texts as a Tool, Not as a Crutch
by Angela Cartwright Lynskey
 
Literacy for Active Citizenship
by Jared J. Reitz
 
A Look at the OGT
Using Active Reading Strategies During the Test
by Carol Brown Dodson
 
For Your Bookshelf
Books by McLaughlin & DeVoogd, Zwiers, Fisher & Frey, and Harmon, Wood, & Hedrick
by Sheila Cantlebary and Beth Munger
 
From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Active Literacy and Informational Text
 

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Text Complexity (Spring 2012)
Close Reading and Reader Response (Fall 2012)
Text Types and Purposes (Winter 2013)