Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers

Recharge Adolescent Literacy: Strategies to Foster Joyful and Proficient Readers

There are many adolescent readers who, for a variety of reasons, find it difficult to connect with written words and have fallen behind on their foundational reading skills. Thankfully, it's never too late to give these necessary skills a boost and help students find joy in reading and learning. Armed with equity, empathy, evidence-based research, and practical application,Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readersprovides classroom practices teachers can use with the whole class or with small groups to integrate reading support seamlessly with grade-level content learning.

Bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, along with Sarah Ortega, Kierstan Barbee, and Aida Allen-Rotell, creatively organize the book around a metaphor: adolescent literacy is a battery-when all the parts are connected, working together, and fully charged-literacy can thrive. Throughout the book, the following features will guide your learning:

• Plug Into the Research - an overview of the evidence-based research supporting each section of the literacy model
• Power Up Classroom Practice - connecting the dots on the research, classroom practice and human aspects of learning
• Voices from the Field - classroom examples of application and strategies from other secondary educators
• Take Charge - key takeaways and reflection questions
• Tips on building and organizing your classroom library to incorporate tools, technology, and media available to maximize lesson effectiveness
• Dozens of videos to model time-efficient strategies and key concepts