Bridging the Literacy Achievement Gap, Grades 4-12

by Strickland, Dorothy S.; Alvermann, Donna E.; Ferguson, Ronald F.

• ISBN13: 9780807744864
• ISBN10: 0807744867
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

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. Addressing critical issues related to pre-adolescent and adolescent literacy learners with a focus on closing the achievement gap, this valuable resource is essential reading for those involved in teaching and setting policy for literacy education in grades 4 through 12. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Ronald F. Ferguson
Acknowledgments	ix
Learning and Teaching Literacy in Grades 4--12: Issues and Challenges	1	(14)
Dorothy S. Strickland
Donna E. Alvermann
PART I: Understanding the Literacy Achievement Gap: Learners and Context	15	(92)
Reconceptualizing the Literacy Learning of Latino Students	17	(13)
Robert T. Jimenez
Coming of Age in Working-Poor America: Lessons from Ethnography and Teaching	30	(13)
Deborah Hicks
Improving Reading Achievement in Secondary Schools: Structures and Reforms	43	(13)
Timothy Shanahan
Motivation for Reading During the Early Adolescent and Adolescent Years	56	(14)
Allan Wigfield
African American Students and Literacy	70	(16)
Carol D. Lee
Improving Literacy Skills of At-Risk Adolescents: A Schoolwide Response	86	(21)
Donald D. Deshler
Jean B. Schumaker
Susan K. Woodruff
PART II: Addressing the Literacy Achievement Gap: Promising Practices	107	(168)
Strategies to Accelerate Reading Success (Stars) in the Middle Grades	109	(17)
Christy J. Falba
Ralph E. Reynolds
Literacy as the Key to Academic Success and Educational Reform	126	(21)
Fred Carrigg
Margaret Honey
Five Years Later: The Outcomes of a Schoolwide Approach to Increasing Achievement in an Urban High School	147	(17)
Douglas Fisher
Nancy Frey
Douglas Williams
Improving Literacy Through Professional Development: Success and Sustainability in a Middle School	164	(19)
Tamara L. Jetton
Janice A. Dole
Project Criss: Reading, Writing, and Learning in the Content Subjects	183	(17)
Carol M. Santa
Apprenticing Urban Youth to Science Literacy	200	(27)
Cynthia Greenleaf
Willard Brown
Cindy Litman
Explaining Explanations: Developing Scientific Literacy in Middle School Project-Based Science Reforms	227	(25)
Elizabeth Birr Moje
Deborah Peek-Brown
LeeAnn M. Sutherland
Ronald W. Marx
Phyllis Blumenfeld
Joseph Krajcik
The Talent Development Literacy Program for Poorly Prepared High School Students	252	(14)
James McPartland
Robert Balfanz
Alta Shaw
Sample Activities for Teachers: In Classrooms, Schools, and Communities	266	(9)
Nora E. Hyland
About the Editors and Contributors	275	(8)
Index	283