Strategies to support struggling adolescent readers. - Grades 6-12

When students are in elementary school, a teacher who has expertise in teaching the fundamentals of reading instructs them.

At the middle and high school level that stops - and the timing could not be worse.

The literacy demands increase exponentially, yet typically schools do not teach adolescents how to successfully read the increasingly difficult materials they encounter throughout their day.

As the rigor increases in their classes, student coping skills become less effective.

Consequently, the achievement gap becomes wider and more difficult to close during the adolescent years.

When it comes time to prescribe an intervention, middle and high school teachers are hitting a wall.

This text addresses the need for 6-12 teachers to have appropriate literacy intervention materials to use with struggling adolescent readers.