Informed Choices for Struggling Adolescent Readers —
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Introduction

In their introduction, authors Gina Biancarosa, Marnie Nair, Donald D. Deshler, and Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar outline the purposes and philosophy behind this resource:

This book is our attempt to arm educators with information and resources for addressing adolescent literacy within their own contexts. We hope this book will speak to your concerns whether your role is that of teacher, specialist, principal, or district administrator. Wherever you serve your students, be it a rural, suburban, or urban locale, the process you must go through to enact effective change in adolescent literacy is much the same. At the same time, because the students you serve are unique, the program you develop will be unique. This book attempts to provide you with insight into the process in order to enable you to choose wisely among the extremely wide array of instructional programs currently available.

(2007). Introduction. In Informed Choices for Struggling Adolescent Readers (pp. 1-8). Newark, DE: Carnegie Corporation of New York.