Jetton,Tamara L.

Adolescent literacy research and practice/ Tamara L.Jetton - New York: The Guilford press, 2004. - 468 p.

Part 1. Teaching content domains through literacy --
Domains, teaching, and literacy / Tamara L. Jetton and Patricia A. Alexander --
Teaching English from a literacy perspective : the goal of high literacy for all students / Wayne H. Slater --
Overcoming the dominance of communication : writing to think and to learn / Timothy Shanahan --
Teaching science through literacy / Cynthia Shanahan --
Learning to think like a historian : disciplinary knowledge through critical analysis of multiple documents / Steven A. Stahl and Cynthia Shanahan --
Part 2. Teaching adolescents with literacy difficulties --
Adolescents who struggle with word identification : research and practice / Mary E. Curtis --
Teaching struggling adolescent readers to comprehend what they read / Terry Underwood and P. David Pearson Helping adolescent readers through explicit strategy instruction / Jeffrey D. Nokes and Janice A. Dole --
Strategies for struggling second-language readers / Janette K. Klingner and Sharon Vaughn --
Literacy intervention programs at the middle and high school levels / Donna E. Alvermann and Leslie S. Ruth --
Differentiating instruction : a synthesis of key research and guidelines / Carol Ann Tomlinson --
Part 3. Critical issues in adolescent reading --
Motivated reader, engaged writer : the role of motivation in the literate acts of adolescents / Joylynn Hailey [and others] --
Motivating adolescent readers through concept-oriented reading instruction / Emily Anderson Swan --
Addressing the literacy needs of adolescent English language learners / Georgia Earnest García and Heriberto Godina --
Culturally responsive practices for youth literacy learning / Elizabeth Birr Moje and Kathleen Hinchman --
Adolescents, computer technology, and literacy / Helen S. Kim and Michael L. Kamil --
Assessing adolescent reading / Peter Afflerbach --
Teacher education and adolescent literacy / Thomas W. Bean and Helen J. Harper --
Part 4. Reflections on theory and current practice --
The need for research on secondary literacy education / Michael Pressley --
Theories and constants that have made a significant difference in adolescent literacy--
but have the potential to produce still more positive benefits / Michael F. Graves.

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