Reading Success for Struggling Adolescent Learners

Introduction, Susan Lenski and Jill Lewis

I. Understanding Struggling Adolescent Readers

1 What Do We Know about the Adolescent Learner and What Does It Mean for Literacy Instruction?, Jill Lewis and Avivah Dahbany

2. Struggling Adolescent Readers: Problems and Possibilities, Susan Lenski

3. Nurturing Resilience among Adolescent Readers, Alfred W. Tatum and Teresa A. Fisher

4. Teaching Adolescent English Language Learners, Fabiola P. Ehlers-Zavala

II. Organizing Classroom Contexts That Promote Literacy

5 The Role of Technology in Supporting Struggling Readers, Dana Grisham and Thomas DeVere Wolsey

6. Engaging Struggling Adolescent Readers in Conversations about Texts: Instructional Strategies for Successful Experiences, Kathleen Crawford-McKinney and Kattie Hogan

7. Making Time for Independent Reading, Susan Lenski and Erexenia Lanier

III. Implementing Classroom Instruction for Struggling Adolescent Readers

8. Fluency Strategies for Struggling Adolescent Readers, Gay Fawcett and Timothy Rasinski

9. Comprehension Strategies that Make a Difference for Struggling Readers, Micki M. Caskey

10. Vocabulary Strategies for Struggling Readers, Margaret Ann Richek and Becky McTague

11. Classroom Instruction for Struggling Writers, Leif Fearn and Nancy Farnan

12. Teaching from a Critical Literacy Perspective and Encouraging Social Action, Susan Lenski

IV. Developing Schoolwide Contexts to Support Achievement

13 Meaningful Assessment of Struggling Adolescent Readers, Peter Afflerbach

14. Literacy Coaching at the Middle School/High School Levels, Rita Bean

15. Keeping Parents Involved in Their Children’s Education during the Middle and High School Years, Laurie Elish-Piper

16. “But I’m Not Going to College!â€: Developing Adolescents’ Literacy for the 21st-Century Workplace, Jill Lewis