Adolescent Literacy
What Is It?
Students need to be expert readers, writers, and thinkers able to compete and succeed in today’s complex, knowledge-based, global economy. Secondary teachers will face the reasonability of helping students acquire these skills—regardless of what content area they teach.
SEDL has created a professional development model that provides two vehicles for supporting adolescent literacy. First, our literacy specialists show teachers how to use research and strategies that emphasize student success in reading and writing in all content areas for students in grades 4–12. Second, we help participants facilitate ongoing professional development activities at their schools or district so that all teachers can apply what they learn in the classroom, collaborate with other teachers, and refine how they teach.
How SEDL Can Help
Just for You
SEDL’s team of literacy specialists can create a customized 2-year technical assistance plan just for your district or school. Through hands-on interactive sessions, participants will be coached and facilitated through the learning process. They will
- gain a deeper understanding of the major components of an adolescent literacy program;
- practice using research-based instructional strategies that focus on helping secondary students comprehend complex texts, think critically about what they read, and understand the importance of vocabulary for application and meaning;
- learn how to explicitly talk about their instruction and the literacy strategy connections; and
- create an action plan to apply what they learn in a classroom setting.
Stimulus Funds to Use
Title I, Part A Recovery Funds and Title I, School Improvement Grants (103G Funds)
Contact Us
Please contact the SEDL Center for Professional Learning at 800-476-6861, ext. 6556, or e-mail services@sedl.org to learn more.