Expectations, Relevance, and Relationships: Striving toward Ideals for Adolescent Literacy Instruction in an Urban Secondary School

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Chantal Francois
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Adolescent Literacy ◽  
Urban Secondary School

scholarly journals Weight status and eating habits of adolescent Nigerian urban secondary school girls

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alphonsus Ndidi Onyiriuka ◽  
Dominic D Umoru ◽  
Amarabia N Ibeawuchi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Urban Secondary School

scholarly journals Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna E. Alvermann
Keyword(s):  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Adolescent Literacy ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
School Level ◽  
Elementary Grades ◽  
High School Level ◽  
General Audience ◽  
The Board Of Directors

This article, written for a general audience, focuses on the importance of keeping adolescents' interests and needs foremost in mind when designing literacy instruction at the middle and high school level. It is a slightly revised version of a position paper that the Board of Directors of the National Reading Conference (NRC) commissioned this past year to underscore the need to continue literacy instruction beyond the elementary grades. Posted originally to NRC's web page ( http://nrc.oakland.edu ), the paper argues that adolescent literacy instruction, if it is to be effective, must address issues of self-efficacy and student engagement with a variety of texts (e.g., textbooks, hypermedia texts, digital texts) in diverse settings. It must also attend to the literacy demands of subject area classes, to struggling readers, to issues of critical literacy, and to participatory instructional approaches that actively engage adolescents in their own learning.

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