teaching strategies
Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
 |  Investigate the language of electronic messages and its effects on other writing by considering how writers use Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and audiences. |
Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution, and Setting
| Immerse students in this readers theater activity that asks them to think about the ways that plot, character, conflict, resolution, and setting combine to create a story. |
Graffiti Walls: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
| Tap into students' use of drawing and doodling by using graphic representation as a response strategy to literature. The graphic response is then used to generate text for an essay. |
Making Connections to Myth & Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
|  In The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday links the survival of his people to their ability to remember, preserve, and pass on stories. In this assignment, students write a three-voice narrative following Momaday’s model, that can be used with any study of mythology or folktales. |
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professional readings
At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching Popular Culture
|  Not only do students bring insider knowledge of youth culture and a passion for and investment in its texts and practices. |
"What's the Gist?" Summary Writing for Struggling Adolescent Writers
|  The ability to write accurately and efficiently for the purpose of reporting information is a gateway skill for other types of writing, particularly research reports and presuasive essays. |
Christensen and Wilhelm on Supporting Adolescent Literacy
| Educators know that reading isn’t something learned all at once. It’s a skill that continues to develop throughout our lives and is one that requires support at all educational levels. At the middle and high school levels this support should take into account the various literacies that adolescents command, many of which go beyond school walls. Two experts on adolescent literacy share their thinking in this interview. |
Teaching Reading in High School English Classes
|  This collection offers practical teaching ideas for helping students increase vocabulary and comprehension, as well as learn to love books. Read the sample chapter on literature study. |
Getting Kids into the Game: You Gotta Know the Rules
|  From the May 2001 Voices from the Middle issue, "When Readers Struggle". This volume includes suggestions on comprehension, vocabulary building, the role of technology, and suggested YAL titles and annotations from leaders like Kylene Beers, Walter Dean Myers, Jeff Wilhelm, and Nancy Patterson. |
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related resources
Adolescent Literacy: A Policy Research Brief
|  This NCTE Policy Research Brief offers updates on research with implications for policy decisions that affect teaching and learning in the area of adolescent literacy. |
NCTE Consultants Specializing in Adolescent Literacy
|  Bring an experienced NCTE consultant to your school to engage your staff in a workshop or presentation on adolescent literacy topics such as motivation and engagement, critical literacy skills, content area reading and writing, gender and literacy, teaching literature, teaching grammar in context, technology, and many more! |
Adolescent Literacy Kit
 | Featuring Kylene Beers's When Kids Can't Read--What Teachers Can Do and Teaching Reading in High School English Classes, edited by Bonnie O. Ericson, this kit will help you to zero in on key issues like comprehension, word recognition, fluency and targeted strategy instruction. |
Funding Focus: Adolescent Literacy
| Funding opportunities for adolescent literacy |
Research on Adolescent Literacy and Recommendations
| The NCTE Commission on Reading prepared the following document to provide a research-based resource for media, policymakers, and teachers that acknowledges the complexities of reading as a developmental process and addresses the needs of secondary readers and their teachers. |
It's Never Too Late: Reading Skills for Teenagers
| Reading a wide variety of texts, literature, and genres helps improve our reading abilities, no matter what our age. Read Leila Christenbury's opinion piece, "It's Never Too Late: Reading Skills for Teenagers."
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