Kamil, M. L., et. al. (2008). Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices.

This practice guide provides five recommendations for increasing the reading ability of adolescents. The first three recommendations are strategies that classroom teachers can incorporate into their instruction to help students gain more from their reading tasks in content-area classes. The fourth recommendation offers teachers strategies for improving students’ motivation for and engagement with learning. Together, the recommendations offer a coherent statement: specific strategies are available for classroom teachers and specialists to address the literacy needs of all adolescent learners. The fifth recommendation refers specifically to adolescent struggling readers, those students whose poor literacy skills weaken their ability to make sense of written material (Kamil, M. L., et. al., 2008, p.8)