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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Adolescent Literacy"”.
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Reading Motivation as a Moderator for Adolescent Literacy Outcomes
… often come to class without the necessary literacy proficiency for high school level content. English/Language Arts teachers find themselves needing to teach both grade level material alongside the basic, intermediate and disciplinary literacy skills students need to access text. Reading …
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Adolescent Literacy: The Case for Using Data-Based Individualization to Improve Student Outcomes
Background: Literacy is a skill necessary for various aspects of life from work to entertainment. Over the last two decades, among school aged students, the nation’s literacy proficiency rates have remained low and stagnant. Federal and state lawmakers have sought to ameliorate the literacy issue …
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Smoke in a Bottle: Adolescent Literacies and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in an Urban Catholic High School
Increased standardization within adolescent literacy education leads to dehumanization of students who become a demographic label, statistic, or problem to fix (Blackburn, 2013; Freire, 1996; Gordon, 2009; Paris & Alim, 2017; Paris & Winn, 2013). This is particularly true in urban contexts where …
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"""I can only cognitively coach so much"": heavy coaching efforts amidst disciplinary complexities in secondary school classrooms"
… learning. If efficacy expectations related to adolescent literacy are not met, instructional coaching runs the risk of being attempted and abandoned by secondary schools (Knight, 2007; Walpole & McKenna, 2008). Insufficient research has explored how secondary coaches attempt to impact …
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#BlackBoyYALit: Seeing Black boys in 21st century young adult literature
… literature not only for its role in developing adolescent literacy, but also for its ability to help teens to affirm their identities, observe how others deal with problems, and connect emotionally or psychologically with characters. Yet for more than two decades, African American male teens …
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Literacy from a Different Perspective: Listening to the Voices of Adolescents from a Mulitcultural Context
… listen to the perceptions of the experiences of adolescents from a multicultural background as those experiences related to their literacy learning acquisition. Each of the adolescent learners were enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages program in one of the middle schools in the …
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From At-Risk Literacy Labels to Resilient Identity Portrayals: Adolescents Fostering Hope Within Their Dreams, Fights, and Adaptations
… and indicators of risk, some children and adolescents labeled at risk are successful in academic endeavors and in life and could be characterized as resilient (Barone, 1999, 2004; Benard, 2004; Waxman, Padron, & Gray, 2004; Wolin & Wolin, 1993). Using a multiple case study design, the …
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Modeling participatory literacy (in your pants): An analysis of print and new media convergence in the Vlogbrothers' YouTube videos
… and specifically identifies their personal literacy practices. This research then analyzes how the online video platform of YouTube transforms those practices into modeling behavior for their adolescent fan-base. The research further describes how the Vlogbrothers create social, networked …
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Social Support Networks for Literacy Engagement among Culturally Diverse Urban Adolescents
… of social networks and social support on the literacy engagement of 7 high school students from a multicultural, multilingual, and economically disadvantaged urban neighborhood in a large, diverse North American city. Specifically, this study describes (1) students’ social networks and social …
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Reading the Word and the World through Graphic Novels: A Graphic Portrayal of Young Adult Literacy Development in a Ninth Grade English Literature Classroom
… motivation and engagement related to adolescent literacy practices through graphic novels. A case study utilizing the graphic novels grounded in the theoretical approach of critical literacy demonstrated increases in motivation toward reading from a more critical social lens. …
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"It's just part of what we do": Adolescent interactions with multimodal texts across social spaces
<p>This dissertation explores how adolescents are interacting with text across shifting social spaces, and how they learn to be literate across a range of social, academic, print, and digital contexts. The intent of the study is to help articulate the boundedness and fluidity of multiple …
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The Impact of Peer Discussion Groups on the Recreational Reading of Seventh Grade Students
… and rapidly accelerates during adolescence. Adolescent literacy is impacted on many fronts, including various factors in psychological, emotional, intellectual, academic, and social development. Because social factors and emotional factors are especially relevant in the study of adolescents …
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The Impact of Peer Discussion Groups on the Recreational Reading of Seventh Grade Students
… and rapidly accelerates during adolescence. Adolescent literacy is impacted on many fronts, including various factors in psychological, emotional, intellectual, academic, and social development. Because social factors and emotional factors are especially relevant in the study of adolescents …
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Searching for equality: improving reading literacy at second level in disadvantaged schools. The impact of the JCSP Literacy Strategy on reading literacy with a particular focus on the impact of the JCSP Literacy Medley.
… – if one is deprived of basic education, of literacy and numeracy skills, one is excluded from economic, social, and political participation. Success in education offers the marginalised freedom, choices and possibilities. The Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) supports teachers and …
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A Multiple Probe Study of a Word Level Intervention for Adolescents with Limited Reading Proficiency
… to the academic learning experiences for adolescents with particular attention to adolescents with limited reading proficiency and the use of single case design research as a viable option for discovering solutions to a persisting research-to-practice gap in education. Data analyses …
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A Case Study of One Teacher's Experience Using a Sociocultural View of Disability in the English Classroom
Teachers' attitudes are shaped by the language, culture, and power constructs surrounding the disability in our society. This qualitative case study investigated how a sociocultural lens supported an English teacher's efforts to plan and implement lessons that use literature to examine disability …
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It’s All Connected: How Teachers and Students Co-Construct Spaces and Figured Worlds through Literacy and Language Events and Practices
… and communities in Central County participate in literacy and language events and practices in an alternative humanities class? When, where and under what conditions do spaces/places become engaging and/or community generative learning environments? The study examines a half-day humanities program …
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Boys Who Love Books: Avid Adolescent Male Readers in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom
… perceptions and lived experiences of avid adolescent male readers, in order to better understand their development as readers. This study explored: (1) how previous reading experiences influence the development of the avid adolescent male reader and (2) how the reading habits and …
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Shaping and reshaping identities in everyday literacy practices: Adolescent girls' use of selfies in a social and mobile world
Young adolescent girls engage in many leisure and academic activities outside of school that support literacy practices and identity formation. The use of mobile devices and online spaces has become an integral component of girls’ everyday lives that results in copious reading, writing, and …
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