241 Intervention Research for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis of Outcomes Related to High-Order Processing Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Most adolescents become more sophisticated learners as they move through their elementary years into adolescence. Those students with learning disabilities (LD), however, have a struggle with higher-order processing that begins in the elementary years and continues to generalize into adolescence.... 242 Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM): Reading and Writing Measures in Secondary Education Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This handout was presented at the 2005 Council for Exceptional Chiildren (CEC) Convention & Expo as an efficient description of curriculum-based measurement. The handout describes the characteristics and advantages of CBM and provides methods for developing probes for measuring the reading and writing performance of students in secondary school.... 243 Adolescent Literacy: Encouraging the Development of Adolescent Readers Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This inquiry study, which was part of the NCTE Reading Initiative in 2002, looks at ways to encourage the development of adolescent readers as they expand their learning into more complex and varied areas. Adolescents' literacy histories and their wide range of abilities are included in the background information necessary to begin to understand what... 244 Content Area Literacy Lessons Go High Tech Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource is an article for teachers that addresses a hands-on approach to literacy and technology. Viewed as integral tools within content lessons at all levels, literacy and technology lessons, examples, and activities described in the article include: (1) Preparation activities: Using a digital camera and commercial software in art class and using websites to create interest in the content of science and English; (2) Assistance activities: Guiding seven- and eighth-year-olds on a virtual field trip to study biology topics, using websites with young adolescents in math class to support geometry learning, and engaging older adolescents in online threaded discussion about Roman civilization; and (3) Reflection activities: Word-processing with young children as they write poetry, using computer software, Web resources, and e-mail in history study with young children, finding Web resources to support young adolescents’ mathematics and literature study, using presentation software in foreign-language and biology class, and using a variety of Web and software resources with older adolescents studying health issues.... Projects: Writing 6-12 245 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.... 246 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 6-12 247 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.... 248 Putting It All Together: Building a Community of Practice for Learners with Special Needs Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Literacy is a social process. Building a community of literacy learners can encourage an environment that allows for practice, and one that supports and develops students' literacy learning.... 249 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, February 2006, Supporting Struggling Readers in Content-Area Learning Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The February issue of AdLIT's In Perspective focuses on supporting struggling readers in content-area learning. 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 6-12 250 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 |