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Struggling Adolescent Readers


This page was created for Des Moines educators to support the district-wide professional development initiative to assist struggling readers.

This page was created by the Heartland AEA Professional Library. Question should be directed to Susan Schrader.

Journal articles and research reports
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"Amidst familial gatherings": Reading apprenticeship in a middle school classroom
Voices from the Middle; Urbana; May 2001; Marean Jordan, Rita Jensen; Cynthia Greenleaf

How to...increase reading skills through recorded books
NEA Today; Washington; Feb 2001; Anonymous

From familiar worlds to possible worlds: Using narrative theory to support struggling readers' engagements with texts
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; Sep 2001; Diane Zigo

Enhancing the self-efficacy of struggling readers
The Clearing House; Washington; Sep/Oct 2001; Patrick P McCabe; Howard Margoli

Reading adolescents' reading identities: Looking back to see ahead
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; May 2001; Donna E Alvermann

Assisting struggling readers in building vocabulary and background knowledge
Voices from the Middle; Urbana; May 2001; Judith L Irvin

Wordless books: No-risk tools for inclusive middle-grade classrooms
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; Mar 1998; Judith K Cassady

A word map for middle school: A tool for effective vocabulary instruction
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; Sep 2001; Catherine Rosenbaum

Content area literacy and strategies

Collaborative strategic reading as a means to enhance peer-mediated instruciton for reading comprehension and content-area learning
Remedial and Special Education; Austin; Mar/Apr 2001; Sharon Vaughn; Janette K Klinger; Diane P Bryant

Teaching summarization as a content area reading strategy
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; Dec 2000/Jan 2001; Rosalie Friend

Reading in the content areas: Unlocking the secrets and making them work
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; Oct 2000; Jacqueline E Dunn

A new role for the reading specialist: Contributing toward a high school's collaborative educational culture
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; Dec 1999/Jan 2000; Geraldine F Henwood

Exemplary urban middle school teachers' use of the five standards of effective teaching
Teaching and Change; Thousand Oaks; Fall 1999; Dawn J Bradford

Secondary school reading: Using the quality principle of continuous improvement to build an exemplary program
National Association of Secondary School Principals. NASSP Bulletin; Reston; May 1999; L David Weller; Sylvia J Wellernstructional strategies for content-area reading instruction

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The challenge of content area literacy: A middle school case study
The Clearing House; Washington; Mar/Apr 1999; Ann L Loranger

Dumbing down content area reading
English Journal; Urbana; Jan 1999; Anonymous

Changing texts, changing thinking: Comprehension demands of new science textbooks
The Reading Teacher; Newark; Dec 1998/Jan 1999; Sharon Walpole

The principal as instructional leader: Teaching high school teachers how to teach reading
National Association of Secondary School Principals. NASSP Bulletin; Reston; Oct 1998; Ernestine G Riggs; Ana Gil Serafin

IIn search of content area reading instruction: The role of science classrooms
Educational Research Quarterly; West Monroe; Mar 1998; Chester H Laine; Terry L Bullock; Karen L Ford

Writing to learn in content area reading class
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Newark; Oct 1997; Sharon E Andrews

Addressing the literacy crisis: Teaching reading in the content areas
National Association of Secondary School Principals. NASSP Bulletin; Reston; Mar 1997; Barton, Mary Lee

Using graphic organizers to improve the reading of mathematics
The Reading Teacher; Newark; Nov 1994

RAND Reading Study Group releases draft report
Reading Today; Newark; Apr/May 2001; Anonymous

Strategic Reading
Are higher-level texts bringing your students down?: Strategic Reading; Jeffrey D Wilhelm; Reading Today, Newark; Jun/Jul 2001

Collaborative strategic reading as a means to enhance peer-mediated instruciton for reading comprehension and content-area learning; Sharon Vaughn; Remedial and Special Education, Austin; Mar/Apr 2001

Teaching reading comprehensive through collaborative strategic reading; Sharon Vaughn; Intervention in School and Clinic, Austin; May 1999

Using collaborative strategic reading; Janette K Klingner; Teaching Exceptional Children, Reston; Jul/Aug 1998

The strategic reading abilities and potential of five low-literacy Latina/o readers in middle school; Robert T Jimenez; Reading Research Quarterly, Newark; Jul-Sept 1997

Related Web Pages
Center on English Learning and Achievement
Participating in Classroom Dialogue Helps Struggling Readers

Helping the Underachiever in Reading

A Framework for Evaluating the Resources for Struggling College Readers

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nternational Reading Association Position Statement on Adolescent Literacy and a Profile of a Struggling Reader

Reading Journals Online
Reading Research Quarterly Abstracts

Reading Online

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