| Description |
ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Language and literacy series
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Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
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| 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 ...[et al.] -- 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Understanding the literacy achievement gap : learners and context -- Addressing the literacy achievement gap : promising practices. |
| Subject |
Language arts (Secondary) -- United States.
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Language arts (Secondary) |
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United States. |
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English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
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English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) |
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Educational equalization -- United States.
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Educational equalization. |
| Added Author |
Strickland, Dorothy S.
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Alvermann, Donna E.
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| ISBN |
0807744875 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807744867 paperback alkaline paper |
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