Language and Literacy Development Series: Adolescent Literacy Development and Instruction

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Though literacy instruction moves into the background after the early elementary years, in fact there is lots left to learn and to teach in the middle and high school years about reading, writing, literate forms of language use, and content-area specific literate genres. The unfinished task of literacy development is a challenge or teachers, school and district leaders, and policy makers who assume that literacy learning is no longer a concern. But many questions remain, e.g. How do literacy…