Spotlight: Addressing Literacy in the Secondary Classroom
The literacy challenges facing middle and high school teachers span a wide range, including providing support to struggling readers, introducing student writers to various genres, and helping all students deepen their ability to think critically and articulate their ideas. Explore this collection of Stenhouse resources:
Reading Comprehension
Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males
Alfred Tatum
For those who truly wish to leave no child behind, the racial achievement gap in literacy is one of the most difficult issues in education today, and nowhere does it manifest itself more perniciously than in the case of black adolescent males.
Alfred Tatum: Engaging African American Males in Reading (Article)
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?
Cris Tovani
The book shows how understanding everything from a textbook math problem to a sonnet is easier when simple reading strategies are applied.
Bringing the Outside In
Sara Kajder
Sara focuses on ways of using visual components to engage reluctant readers. She keys in on the visual aspects of literacy and builds upon students' growing interest in using words and images from their lives to read and write, helping her kids refine what it means to be literate in today's world.
Writing
Teaching Adolescent Writers
Kelly Gallagher
Kelly shows how students can be taught to write effectively. He offers teachers both practical ways to incorporate writing instruction into their day, and compelling reasons to do so.
Literacy and Critical Thinking
Socratic Circles
Matt Copeland
Socratic seminars enhance reading comprehension, listening and speaking skills, and build a better classroom community. Matt Copeland has created a coaching guide for both the teacher new to Socratic seminars and the experiences teacher seeking to optimize the benefits of this powerful strategy.
Thinking Through Genre
Heather Lattimer
The book supports English teachers who seek to engage their students in genre studies in the reading and writing workshop.
Tools for Teaching Content Literacy
Janet Allen
This handy flip chart provides ready reference to strategies for reading and writing across content areas.
