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Enhancing Literacy for High School Improvement

Enhancing Literacy for High School Improvement. James Kemple MDRC. Prepared for National High School Center Summer Institute June 2007. Overview of Key Issues: Nature of the Problem. Struggling adolescent readers face general problem with reading for understanding.

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Enhancing Literacy for High School Improvement

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  1. Enhancing Literacy for High School Improvement James Kemple MDRC Prepared for National High School Center Summer Institute June 2007

  2. Overview of Key Issues:Nature of the Problem • Struggling adolescent readers face general problem with reading for understanding. • Specific challenges span weak basic skills (phonics, vocabulary, fluency, etc…) through limited repertoire of strategies aimed at reading for understanding (meta-cognition, drawing inferences, drawing meaning from context, content-specific vocabulary, etc…) • Literacy not typically seen as the domain of high schools, particularly content-area teachers.

  3. Overview of Key Issues:Strategies for Intervention • Equipping high schools and high school teachers with literacy-focused instructional strategies will require: • Making literacy a priority that complements, rather than competes with content requirements. • Building capacity for teachers to differentiate instruction without lowering expectations. • Three pronged strategy: • Teaching strategies that account for limited literacy • General teaching strategies that address literacy needs • Intensive support for struggling readers

  4. Overview of Key Issues:Building Knowledge • Limited evidence about what works points to the need for knowledge building by evaluating new initiatives before going to scale.

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