Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice

By Kylene Beers, Bob Probst, and Linda Rief (editors); features a chapter by EDC's Cynthia Mata Aguilar

Adolescent Literacy convenes a conversation among today’s most important educational thinkers and practitioners to address crucial advances in research on adolescent learning, to assess which of our current practices meets the challenges of the twenty-first century, and to discover transformative ideas and methods that turn the promise of education into instructional practice. The book discusses the most provocative issues of our time, including English language learners, struggling readers, technology in the classroom, multimodal literacy, compelling writing instruction, teaching in a “flat world,” engagement, and young adult literature. Each of its chapters builds on the previous to create a unified story of adolescent literacy that helps all middle and secondary teachers and administrators envision literacy instruction in exciting new ways. In addition Adolescent Literacy’s assessment rubrics for teachers, administrators, and staff developers make it an ideal resource for school-wide and district-wide professional development, while its accompanying study guide is perfect for small-group discussions. Aguilar’s chapter, “English Language Learners in the Classroom,” was written along with Danling Fu, associate professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, and Carol Jago, a teacher at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California.

Read EDC's Spotlight on Staff on Cynthia Mata Aguilar: http://main.edc.org/Staff/aguilar.asp

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Price: $29.50
ISBN: 0-325-01128-1
(411 pp.) Print