Adolescent Literacy: An ASCD Action Tool

by Sue Beers

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Extend literacy instruction through the middle and high school grades by outfitting classrooms with this collection of literacy tools for adolescent students. Teachers will find tools to help their students improve their use of literacy skills, including retrieving, processing, communicating, and retaining content knowledge in any subject. Teachers choose from more than 80 tools to use prior to or during lessons to teach students how to

• Gather facts and ideas from all types of sources of information
• Take notes, make outlines, and create graphic organizers
• Delineate main ideas and judge the relevancy of different sources
• Communicate through written, spoken, and multimedia presentations

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About the Author

SUE BEERS is an ASCD Faculty member and serves as the director of the Mid-Iowa School Improvement Consortium. Her classroom experience has been at the middle and high school levels in the areas of language arts, technology, gifted education, and driver education. During her 31-year career in education, she has also served as a district curriculum/ school improvement director and as joint services coordinator for the Iowa Area Education Agency system. She is a frequent presenter at state, regional, and national conferences and has been a writer and editor for a major educational publishing company. As an international trainer in literacy strategies, effective classroom instruction, Dimensions of Learning, school improvement, professional development planning, and assessment, she has worked with more than 400 schools and school districts.