Focus on Adolescent Literacy:
Recommended Reading Archives

Books

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Adolescents Talk About Reading: Exploring Resistance To and Engagement With Text, by Anne R. Reeves

Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6–12: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities, by Jeff Zwiers

Developing Critical Awareness at the Middle Level: Using Texts as Tools for Critique and Pleasure, by Holly Johnson and Lauren Freedman

Instructional Strategies for Teaching Content Vocabulary, Grades 4–12, by Janis M. Harmon, Karen D. Wood, and Wanda B. Hedrick

Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Collection of Teaching Strategies, edited by David W. Moore, Donna E. Alvermann, and Kathleen A. Hinchman

Articles

Each issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy includes articles of interest to those working with students ages 12 to 18. Browse the archives, and selected articles collection to find articles of interest.

From Reading Research Quarterly, the field’s leading source of high-quality research:

“The construction of meaning and identity in the composition and reading of an architectural text,” by Peter Smagorinsky, Leslie Susan Cook, and Patty M. Reed (Jan/Feb/Mar 2005; vol. 40, no. 1) FREE!

“Zines for social justice: Adolescent girls writing on their own,” by Barbara Guzzetti and Margaret Gamboa (Oct/Nov/Dec 2004; vol. 39, no. 4) FREE!

“Working toward third space in content area literacy: An examination of everyday funds of knowledge and Discourse,” by Elizabeth Birr Moje et al. (Jan/Feb/Mar 2004; vol. 39, no. 1)

“‘Just plain reading’: A survey of what makes students want to read in middle school classrooms,” by Gay Ivey and Karen Broaddus (Oct/Nov/Dec 2001; vol. 36, no. 4)

“The remaking of a high school reader,” by Lesley A. Rex (July/Aug/Sept 2001; vol. 36, no. 3)

From Reading Online, IRA’s freely available e-journal:

“In search of a story: Reading and writing e-literature,” by Rebecca Luce-Kapler and Teresa Dobson (May 2005)

“Literature discussion in cyberspace: Young adolescents using threaded discussion groups to talk about books,” by T. DeVere Wolsey (Jan 2004)

“Juxtaposing traditional and intermedial literacies to redefine the competence of struggling adolescents,” by David O’Brien (Mar 2003)

“Using high-interest materials to engage secondary students in reading,” by Rita Mulholland (Oct 2002)

“Teaching vocabulary to adolescents to improve comprehension,” by Mary E. Curtis and Ann Marie Longo (Nov 2001)

From Reading Today, IRA’s membership newspaper:

“Mountains and sky,” by Matt Freeman (Oct/Nov 2004) FREE!

“Boys and books,” by Jane McFann (Aug/Sep 2004) FREE!