Adolescent Literacy

• Disciplinary Literacy in Action: How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking by ReLeah Cossett Lent and Marsha McCracken Voigt
• Challenging Learning Through Dialogue: Strategies to Engage Your Students and Develop Their Language of Learning by James A. Nottingham, Jill Nottingham, et al.
• Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
• Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12: Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning by Douglas Fisher , Nancy Frey , et al.
• Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners) by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes
• Vocabulary Handbook (Core Literacy Library) by Linda Diamond and Linda Gutlohn
• Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction by by Marcia K. Henry Ph.D. and Maryanne Wolf
• The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades by Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler

Adolescent Literacy Guide: A Professional Learning Resource for Literacy, Grades 7-12

Literacy Leadership Brief: Content Area and Disciplinary Literacy Strategies and Frameworks

- Comparing and contrasting disciplinary and content area literacy

Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction

- Guidance document for best practices in adolescent literacy

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices

- IES Practice Guide

Reading and Writing Instruction in America's Schools

- Report noting progress and concern in today’s ELA classrooms

Position Statement & Research Brief: Engagement and Adolescent Literacy

- Document highlighting ways to engage adolescents with high-quality literacy practices

Before, During and After Strategies for Comprehension

- Chart and descriptions

AdLit Repository of Strategies

- Library of before, during and after reading strategies for vocabulary, comprehension and writing instruction

What Content-Area Teachers Should Know About Adolescent Literacy

- Support document for implementation of literacy across content areas

Reading and Writing in the Disciplines

- A suite of PD organized for the four core subjects.

The Key to Effective Disciplinary Literacy Instruction by Jacy Ippolito, Phillip Wilder and Cami Condie

- Article highlighting how to make sustainable change using DL practices across a school site

Literacy Practices that Adolescents Deserve Disciplinary Literacy Strategies in Content Area Classes

- Cynthia Shanahan explores DL practices for the four core areas

Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

- IES Practice Guide 2016

Text Structures

- Text structure guidelines

Writing Development Viewing Guide

- William Van Cleave on writing

ODEW Literacy Academy 2021: Morphology (video)

- Dianna Townsend on-demand viewing guide regarding morphology

Explicit Lessons: Assimilated Prefixes

- The Grammar Project

Keys to Reading: The Mighty Morpheme

- Article regarding morphology

Guide and Checklists for a School Leader’s Walkthrough During Literacy Instruction in Grades 4–12

- IES guide with walkthrough forms

Adolescent Literacy Walkthrough for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders

- Learning guide for implementation of walkthroughs for adolescents

ODEW Literacy Academy 2020: Disciplinary Literacy (video)

- Rachel Lang Daniels regarding disciplinary literacy

ODEW Literacy Academy 2020: Literacy Planning for Grades 4-12 (video)

- Joan Sedita regarding Literacy Planning for Grades 4-12

ODEW Literacy Academy 2021: Building a Literacy Culture Viewing Guide

- Dr. Joshua Lawrence regarding building a culture of literacy for adolescents

ODEW Literacy Academy 2021: Culturally Responsive Practices and Text Sets Viewing Guide

- Dr. Gholnescar Muhammad regarding culturally responsive practices and text sets