Check out our latest FREE literacy screener for grades 3-12! The Adolescent Assessment of Literacy (AAL) is an online adaptive screener developed by NCIL to be used during the fall semester. Follow the link below to learn more and access the screener.
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Fall Literacy Screener Now Available!
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What Dyslexia Looks Like in Middle School and What You Can Do to Help Your Child
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
This flyer describes how dyslexia can look in middle schoolers.
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What Does Middle School Writing Look Like?
Great Schools
This video by Great Schools details writing expectations for middle schoolers. Get a glimpse into kids’ writing that includes a thesis, details supported by facts, and an analysis, making a clear point.
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Analyzing Speeches: Homework Assignments and Note-Taking Templates
Doing What Works
High school teacher Jim Burke uses these note-taking templates with his high school English students to help them understand landmark speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Barack Obama.
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Advocating for Yourself in Middle School and High School
Family Voices
This resource explains how to get what you need as a middle and high school student.
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Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders
The Center on Instruction
The purpose of this Adolescent Literacy Walk-Through for Principals (ALWP) is to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively.
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Adolescent Literacy Resource Menu: A Guide for Instructional Leaders
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
This guide is organized by commonly experienced challenges (e.g., lack of modeling) to teachers implementing evidence-based adolescent literacy practices with fidelity.
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Adolescent Literacy Planning Template #3
Doing What Works
Use this template with state education agencies to facilitate conversations about setting a policy climate for improving practices at the district and state level.
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Adolescent Literacy Planning Template #2
Doing What Works
Use this template with districts to translate research-based recommendations into practical policies and activities.
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Adolescent Literacy Planning Template #1
Doing What Works
For working with schools on a set of options that can be implemented at the school level for improving practice, including scheduling, professional development, policies, and so forth.
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Adolescent Literacy
Doing What Works
Watch this multimedia overview to learn about five research-based, instructional practice recommendations for improving literacy levels in middle and high school.
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ACCESS Class Weekly Record and Program Overview
Doing What Works
A school teacher uses this template designed by Jim Burke to help students who struggle with reading get organized, motivated, and set weekly academic goals. Learn more about her approach in the presentation, High School Academic Literacy Intervention Class.
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ACCESS Class Vocabulary Chart
Doing What Works
A reading intervention teacher, uses this vocabulary chart to provide secondary students with a structure for learning word meaning. Watch the presentation in the “See How” section of the “Intensive Intervention” collection, High School Academic Literacy Intervention Class, to see her classroom in action.
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Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction
The Center on Instruction
This document was prepared to assist literacy specialists in the national Regional Comprehensive Center network as they work with states to improve educational policy and practice in the area of adolescent literacy.
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5 Self-Advocacy Sentence Starters for Middle-Schoolers With Dyslexia
Understood
Learn how to build self-advocacy skills to help you get what they need. Rehearsing common situations can help you know where to start.
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2020-2021 Priority Instructional Content in ELA/Literacy and Mathematics
Student Achievement Partners
These documents were developed for the 2020-21 academic year in response to the disruption of the global pandemic of COVID-19. They provide guidance for the field about the content priorities by leveraging the structure and emphases of college- and career-ready mathematics and ELA/literacy standards.
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10 Key Reading Practices for All Middle and High Schools
The Meadows Center for Improving Educational Risk
This handbook describes ten reading practices for middle and high schools with strong evidence of effectiveness from high-quality research, including selected grade level descriptions of what students should know and be able to do.