Informed Choices for Struggling Adolescent Readers

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Introduction
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Part I: Principles for Improving Adolescent Literacy

Chapter 1
Adolescent Literacy: Myths and Realities

Chapter 2
The Content of Adolescent Literacy Instruction

Chapter 3
Characteristics and Supports of Adolescent Literacy Instruction

Chapter 4
Costs of Implementing Adolescent Literacy Programs

Chapter 5
School and District Change to Improve Adolescent Literacy

Part II: Specific Instructional Programs

Criteria for Selecting Programs

Criteria for Evaluating Programs

Using the Information Provided
Adolescent Literacy Program Matrixes: Types of Students Served; Included Features; Evaluated Features; Skills, Strategies, and Knowledge Taught

Program Summaries
Academy of Reading, Accelerated Reader, Achieve3000, Achieving Maximum Potential Reading System, Advancement Via Individual Determination, AfterSchool KidzLit, America's Choice—Ramp-Up Literacy, Benchmark Word Detectives, Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction, Corrective Reading, Disciplinary Literacy, Failure Free Reading, First Steps/STEPS, Junior Great Books, Knowledge Box, LANGUAGE!, Learning Upgrade, Lexia Strategies for Older Students, Lindamood-Bell, LitART, My Reading Coach, Passport Reading Journeys, Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies, Phono-graphix, PLATO Learning, Project CRISS, Puente, Questioning the Author, READ 180, READ RIGHT, Reading Apprenticeship, Reading Is FAME (Girls and Boys Town), Reading Power in the Content Areas, Reciprocal Teaching, REWARDS, Saxon Phonics Intervention, Scaffolded Reading Experience, Soar to Success, Spell Read P.A.T., Strategic Instruction Model, Success for All, Talent Development High Schools, Thinking Reader, Transactional Strategies Instruction, Vocabulary Improvement Program, Voyager TimeWarp Plus, Wilson Reading System, WriteToLearn

Appendix
Emerging Adolescent Literacy Programs

References

Author Index

Subject Index