“All the Stories That We Have”

Adolescents’ Insights About Literacy and Learning in Secondary Schools

Elizabeth Birr Moje

Author Elizabeth Moje stresses the importance of building strong relationships with your adolescent students. She recommends integrating their out-of-school experiences into an engaging curriculum that helps them see a larger purpose for their learning.

This book draws from the extensive knowledge base and experience of teachers with whom the author has worked. It also summarizes related literacy research. You and your students will benefit from ideas that weave literacy instruction into critical, inquiry-based projects in which students examine questions that interest them.

© 2000 | 208 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-264-9 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-264-0

Also of interest:

Adolescents Talk About Reading

To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader

IRA Literacy Study Groups Adolescent Literacy Module

Also in the Kids InSight series:

Kids InSight

Windows to Language, Literacy, and Culture

Getting Beyond “I Like the Book”

Discovering What Works for Struggling Readers

Cartwheels on the Keyboard