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Bridging the literacy achievement gap, grades 4-12
- Title
- Bridging the literacy achievement gap, grades 4-12 / edited by Dorothy S. Strickland and Donna Alvermann ; foreword by Ronald F. Ferguson.
- Publication
- New York : Teachers College Press, ©2004.
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- Description
- ix, 294 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
- Summary
- This book addresses critical issues related to pre-adolescent and adolescent literacy learners with a focus on closing the achievement gap. Despite efforts by educators and policymakers during the past several decades, certain groups of students--primarily African American students, English language learners, and students from low-income homes--continue to underperform on commonly used measures of academic achievement. Too often, teachers and administrators lack both proper preparation and good ideas to confront these issues.
- Series Statement
- Language and literacy series
- Uniform Title
- Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Reconceptualizing the literacy learning of Latino students / Robert T. Jiménez -- Coming of age in working-poor America: lessons from ethnography and teaching / Deborah Hicks -- Improving reading achievement in secondary schools: structures and reforms / Timothy Shanahan -- Motivation for reading during the early adolescent and adolescent years / Allan Wigfield -- African American students and literacy / Carol D. Lee -- Improving literacy skills of at-risk adolescents: a schoolwide response / Donald D. Deshler, Jean B. Schumaker, and Susan K. Woodruff -- Strategies to accelerate reading success (STARS) in the middle grades / Christy J. Falba and Ralph E. Reynolds -- Literacy as the key to academic success and educational reform / Fred Carrigg and Margaret Honey -- Five years later: the outcomes of a schoolwide approach to increasing achievement in an urban high school / Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Douglas Williams -- Improving literacy through professional development: success and sustainability in a middle school / Tamara L. Jetton and Janice A. Dole -- Project CRISS: reading, writing, and learning in the content subjects / Carol M. Santa -- Apprenticing urban youth to science literacy / Cynthia Greenleaf, Willard Brown, and Cindy Litman -- Explaining explanations: developing scientific literacy in middle school project-based science reforms / Elizabeth Birr Moje [and others] -- The talent development literacy program for poorly prepared high school students / James McPartland, Robert Balfanz, and Alta Shaw -- Sample activities for teachers: in classrooms, schools, and communities / Nora E. Hyland.
- Understanding the literacy achievement gap : learners and context -- Addressing the literacy achievement gap : promising practices.
- ISBN
- 9780807744871
- 0807744875
- 0807744867
- 9780807744864
- LCCN
- 2004043965
- OCLC
- ocm54103886
- SCSB-14214128
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library