Read Next:
Reading Next is a report that provides recommendations for meeting the needs of the eight million struggling adolescent readers and provides a vision for capturing the effects of what elements work, when, and for whom. The 15 recommendations to improve adolescent reading skills are divided into Instructional Improvements and Infrastructure Improvements.
Instructional Improvements:
Reading Next is a report that provides recommendations for meeting the needs of the eight million struggling adolescent readers and provides a vision for capturing the effects of what elements work, when, and for whom. The 15 recommendations to improve adolescent reading skills are divided into Instructional Improvements and Infrastructure Improvements.
Instructional Improvements:
- Direct, explicit comprehension instruction
- Effective instructional principles embedded in content
- Motivation and self-directed learning
- Text-based collaborative learning
- Strategic tutoring
- Diverse texts
- Intensive writing
- A technology component
- Ongoing formative assessment of students
- Extended time for literacy
- Professional development
- Ongoing summative assessment of students and programs
- Teacher teams
- Leadership
- Comprehensive and coordinated literacy program