Essential Questions in Adolescent Literacy: Teachers and Researchers Describe What Works in Classrooms (Paperback)

I. Getting Personal: Connecting Adolescent Literacy Instruction with Students’ Lived Experiences

1. How Can What We Know about Adolescent Learners Be Used to Benefit Our Literacy Instruction?, Jill Lewis and Bill Jones

2. How Can Motivation and Self-Efficacy Theory Inform Adolescent Literacy Teaching Practices?, Avivah Dahbany and Lauren Bosworth McFadden

3. How Can Adolescents’ Literacies Outside of School Be Brought into the Classroom?, William Kist and Jim Ryan

4. Adolescent Literacy and Democratic Life: What’s Politics Got to Do with It?, Helen Harper and Shannon Mitchell

II. Connecting Adolescent Literacy Instruction to Students' Personal Goals

5. How Can We Help Adolescent Readers Meet the Challenges of Academic Text?, Jill Lewis and Tanya Reader

6. How Can Teachers Help Adolescent English Language Learners Attain Academic Literacy?, Fabiola P. Ehlers-Zavala and Laura Azcoitia

7. How Can We Use Adolescents’ Language and Classroom Discourse to Enhance Critical Thinking Practices?, Francine Falk-Ross and Shannon Hurst

8. How Can Vocabulary Instruction Be Made an Integral Part of Learning in Middle and High School Classrooms?, William Dee Nichols, William H. Rupley, and Kendall Kiser

9. How Does Creative Content-Area Teaching in Cyberspace and Multimedia Settings

Work with Adolescents?, Tom Bean, Nancy Walker, Jennifer Wimmer, and Benita Dillard

10. How Can We Help Adolescents Think about Content through Writing?, Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Lori Kelsey

11. How Can Content-Area Teachers Differentiate Instruction for Their Students to Improve Student Learning?, Deanna Birdyshaw and Lisa Hoffman

12. How Can Assessment Evaluate Student Learning, Inform Instruction, and Promote Student Independence?, Victoria Ridgeway Gillis, Leigh Haltiwanger, Mary Dillingham, April Ficklin, and Barbara Davis

III. Building School Communities for Adolescent Literacy Instruction

13. What Do Middle Grades and High School Teachers Need to Know about Literacy Coaching?, Rita M. Bean and Kathryn E. Carroll