STUDENT TO STUDENT: SCALE's National Youth Literacy Network

Adolescent Literacy References and Resources

Adolescent Development. Baylor University’s Community Mentoring for Adolescent Development. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.mentoring.org/program_staff/files/07_MentorTrng.pdf

Adolescent Literacy and the Achievement Gap: What do we know and where do we go from here? By Catherine E. Snow & Gina Biancarosa. Adolescent Literacy Funders Meeting Report. Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2003. Date accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://all4ed.org/resources/CarnegieAdolescentLiteracyReport.pdf

Adolescent Literacy: Encouraging the Development of Adolescent Readers. By Nancy J. Shanklin. NCTE Reading Initiative. NCTE. 2002
http://www.ncte.org/library/files/Profdev/onsite/RI/OV_AR.pdf

Adolescent Literacy: Fact Sheet. Alliance for Excellent Education. December 2004.
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/FactSheets.html

Adolescent Literacy: A position statement. By David W. Moore, Thomas W. Bean, Deanna Birdyshaw, & James A. Rycik Commission on Adolescent Literacy of the International Reading Association. International Reading Association, Inc. 1999
http://www.reading.org/downloads/positions/ps1036_adolescent.pdf

Adolescent Literacy—Research Informing Practice: A Series of Workshops. Summary of the Adolescent Literacy Workshop: State of the Science and Research Needs. The Partnership for Reading. Date accessed: 3 January, 2006.
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/adolescent/summary.html

Adolescents and Literacy: Reading for the 21st Century by Michael L. Kamil. Alliance for Excellent Education. November, 2003. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/AdolescentsAndLiteracy.pdf

Assessing students' metacognitive awareness of reading strategies. By Mokhtari, Kouider, et. al. Journal of Educational Psychology. 2002. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://imagesrvr.epnet.com/embimages/pdh2/edu/edu942249.pdf

“At-Risk” Adolescents: Redefining Competence Through the Multiliteracies of Intermediality, Visual Arts, and Representations O’Brien, D. (2001, June) Reading Online, 4(11)
http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/

Checkpoints for Progress: In Reading and Writing for Teachers and Learning Partners developed by a subgroup of the America Reads Challenge: READ*WRITE*NOW Partners Group. February 1998. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/resources.html

Concepts of Self-Awareness. Baylor University’s Community Mentoring for Adolescent Development. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.mentoring.org/program_staff/files/11_MentorTrng.pdf

Communication and Listening Skills. Baylor University’s Community Mentoring for Adolescent Development. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.mentoring.org/program_staff/files/12_MentorTrng.pdf

A Creative Writing Program to Enhance Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy in Adolescents. By Genevieve E. Chandler, PhD, RN. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing. Vol. 12, No. 3. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.findarticles.com

Cross-age Tutoring: A Literacy Improvement Approach for Struggling Adolescent Readers by Julie Jacobson, et. al Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 44(6), pp. 528-536. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml?_requestid=65792

Different Ways of Being Smart. Help Yourself, YourSELF! Students Only! North Carolina State University. 2003.
http://ced.ncsu.edu/hyy/diffways.htm

Doing Documentary Work. Literacy Junction: Where Minds Meet. North Carolina State University. Date accessed: 27 June 2006.
http://ncsu.edu/literacyjunction/html/doctutorial.html

Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent English Language Learners
By Deborah Short and Shannon Fitzsimmons, Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007.
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/DoubleWork/DoubleWork.pdf

An Effective (and Affordable) Intervention Model for At-risk High School Readers by Cynthia Fischer. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 43(4). Dec.-Jan. 1999-2000.
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml?_requestid=65142

Effective Strategies. National Dropout Prevention Center/Network. Date accessed: 4 January 2006.
http://www.dropoutprevention.org/effstrat/effstrat.htm

Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents by Donna Alvermann. Executive Summary and Paper Commissioned by the National Reading Conference. Chicago, IL: National Reading Conference. 2001. Date Accessed: 2 May 2006.
http://www.nrconline.org/publications/alverwhite2.pdf

Effective Practice for Developing Reading Comprehension. By Nell K. Duke and P. David Pearson. Scholastic Red. 2002. Date accessed: 16 November 2006.
http://www.scholastic.com

A Guidebook for Adolescent Reading…In the Hope that All Students will be Lovers of Reading and All Teachers will Design Instruction to Promote This Love! Quate, Stevi, Ed. Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. State Library and Adult Education Office
http://eric.ed.gov/

How to Know a Good Adolescent Literacy Program When you See One: Quality Criteria to Consider. Alliance for Excellent Educaiton. Issue Brief. May, 2004. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/

I Couldn’t Put It Down: Captivating the hearts and minds of adolescent readers. The Tutor. Fall, 2005. Date accessed: 16 November 2006.
http://www.nwrel.org/learns/feature/index.html

Literacy Clubs for At-Risk Girls by Bea Naff and Shelley Fones. A Series of Solutions and Strategies. The National Dropout Prevention Center, January, 1998. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/ lib_cat/index.php?library_id=317

The Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners By Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix and Julie Murray, Migration Policy Institutes National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy 2007.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Measures_of_Change.pdf

Motivating Reluctant Adolescent Readers: Strategies for National Service Tutors. The Tutor. Winter, 2000. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://www.nwrel.org/learns/tutor/win2000/aloud.html

NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform. The National Council of Teachers of English. 2006. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://flare.ucf.edu/Research

Now I Get It! Homework Help Strategies for Volunteers. The Tutor. Spring, 2005. Date accessed: 16 November 2006.
http://www.nwrel.org/learns/tutor/spr2005/spr2005.html

Planning Resources for Teachers in Small High Schools: First in a Series of Four, Spring 2003. Literacy Section pp 83-156
http://smallschoolsproject.org

Polar Bears and Needs. Help Yourself, YourSELF! Students Only! North Carolina State University. 2003.
http://ced.ncsu.edu/hyy/studstart.htm

Reading for the 21st Century: Adolescent Literacy Teaching and Learning Strategies. Alliance for Excellent Education. Issue Brief. January, 2004. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://www.ncte.org/about/research/articles/114454.htm

Reading Next—A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy: A Report to Carnegie Corporation New York by Gina Biancarosa and Dr. Catherine Snow. Alliance for Excellent Education. 2004. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/StraightAs/Volume4No18.html

Reading to Achieve: A Governor’s Guide to Adolescent Literacy. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices. 2005. Date Accessed 1 May 2006.
http://www.nga.org

Seeing Themselves as Capable and Engaged Readers: Adolescents and Re/Mediated Instruction by Donna Alvermann. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. November 2003. Date Accessed: 1 May 2006.
http://www.ncrel.org/litweb/readers/

Self-Efficacy. Albert Bandura. Standford University. 2004. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/BanEncy.html

Stages of a Mentoring Relationship. Baylor University’s Community Mentoring for Adolescent Development. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.mentoring.org/program_staff/files/04_MentorTrng.pdf

Study Skills and Tutoring. Baylor University’s Community Mentoring for Adolescent Development. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.mentoring.org/program_staff/files/06_MentorTrng.pdf

Teen Writer Programs Scrutinize Social Issues by Bill Alexander. Youth Today. 9(9), 2000. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://rdb.readwriteact.org/advocacy_and_activism/all/

Tutoring Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Program Investigation. Harmon, J.M., Keehn, S., & Kenney, M.S. Reading Research and Instruction, 44 (2), 46-74.
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com

The Urban High School’s Challenge: Ensuring Literacy for Every Child by Anne Grosso de Leon. Carnegie Challenge. 2002.
http://www.carnegie.org/pdf/literacy.pdf

Using Student Engagement to Improve Adolescent Literacy. NCREL Quick Key 10 Action Guide. Learning Point Associates. 2005. Date accessed: 20 November 2006.
http://www.ncrel.org/litweb/adolescent/qkey10/qkey10.pdf

What is Unique about Adolescent Literacy? A Position/Action Statement on Adolescent Literacy from NCTE’s Commission on Reading. May 2004. Date Accessed: 14 October 2005.
http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/ category/literacy/118622.htm

"The writers are getting kind of desperate": Young adolescents television, and literacy by JoEllen Fisherkeller. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 43(7), April 2000. Date Accessed: 25 April 2006.
http://www.findarticles.com