61 Reinventing Adolescent Literacy for New Times: Perennial And Millennial Issues Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Adolescent literacy is undergoing vast changes. In 1998, then editors at the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Allan Luke and John Elkins suggested the need to reinvent literacy for the 21st century.... 62 Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Technology is influencing and changing ideas of literacy in our educational community. Literacy is moving beyond traditional oral and print-based modes to electronic texts and multimedia. This article explores how technology can be used to enhance literacy instruction in the areas of reading development, writing development, and research and collaborative skills. The authors consider the three... Projects: Writing 6-12 63 Literacy Junction: Cultivating Adolescents Engagement in Literature Through Web Options Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Literacy Junction is an interactive website, grounded in transactional theory, for middle school students and their teachers. The authors of this article created the website with the idea that the internet and web-based texts are an inevitable trend, so they decided to use the power of the internet with young adults and connect them to adolescent literature on the web.... 64 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, March 2006, Boys and Reading Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The March 2006 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective focuses on boys and reading. The entire issue can be downloaded, and regular columns include the following: (1) featured article; (2) classroom vignettes; (3) student voices; (4) a look at the Ohio Graduation Test; (5) for your bookshelf; and (6) resources from the ORC collection.... Projects: Writing 6-12 65 Using Email to Engage Students in the Reading Process—It Works! Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Carolyn Suttles, an English teacher at Bristol High School in Bristolville, Ohio, has taught for 22 years. In this short piece, Suttles shares a classroom vignette about using e-mail to engage her students in the reading process.... Projects: Writing 6-12 66 Books by Rice, Schmidt, and Ogle, Klemp, & McBride Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The February 2008 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective includes reviews by Beth Munger (instructor of composition and reading at Ohio Dominican University). This month's "For Your Bookshelf" includes the following titles: (1) What Was It Like? Teaching History and Culture Through Young Adult Literature by Linda J.... Projects: Writing 6-12 67 Adolescent Literacy Research and Practice [excerpt]: Chapter 7, "Teaching Struggling Adolescent Readers to Comprehend What They Read" Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This chapter looks at instructional interventions that help adolescent readers "fend for themselves" when attempting to negotiate content area textbooks. Adolescent readers often have trouble comprehending what they read due to poorly written textbooks, and/or difficulty with higher-order cognitive processing.... 68 Using High-Interest Materials to Engage Secondary Students in Reading Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Rita Mulholland, reading specialist, formed an English class for students (aged approximately 14-18 years) with a history of failure. She created a unit of study, based on the play, Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 69 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, April 2006, Literacy, Popular Culture, and Technology Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The April 2006 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective focuses on literacy, popular culture, and technology. The entire issue can be downloaded, and regular columns include the following: (1) featured article; (2) classroom vignettes; (3) student voices; (4) a look at the Ohio Graduation Test; (5) for your bookshelf; and (6) resources from the ORC collection.... Projects: Writing 6-12 70 Reading and Writing in a Technology-Rich World Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: "Podcasting, RSS, blogs, IM, hyperlinks, Myspace.com--if you are not at least familiar with these terms, you have already been swept aside by the current carrying most young adults through their daily dose of 21st-century communications." So begins a compelling look at multiple literacies as Marge Ford, English language arts teacher and library/media specialist, examines what new literacies involve, how students figure into these new literacies, and how teachers and librarians can help students develop a critical eye as they navigate these new literacies. Audio and video clips are linked from within the article while a list of resources and references are included later.... |