Adolescent Literacy: Engaging Research & Teaching
ALERTs are information articles that provide practical ideas for grades 7 to 12 literacy instruction.
 ALERT: Make Room for Supporting Understanding of Graphic TextAlthough graphic texts, such as infographics, may at first appear relatively accessible, effective readers need support to understand the way visual and print language works to convey meaning. This new ALERT helps teachers support adolescent readers to derive meaning, both explicit and implicit, from the graphic texts they encounter. |
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| ALERT: Make Room for Thinking Metacognitively This ALERT focusses on supporting students with explicit strategies to stimulate and monitor their learning with the goal of becoming more independent learners. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| ALERT: Make Room For Making Connections to Deepen Understanding This ALERT focusses on supporting students with strategies to make strong connections during and after reading to deepen their understanding and lead to higher levels of engagement with text. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| Good for All Necessary for Some: How to Help Students Who Struggle with Writing This ALERT focusses on meeting the needs of students who struggle with writing. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| Make Room for Building Background Knowledge Building and activating prior knowledge helps students to make sense of subject content regardless of its complexity or difficulty. This ALERT focuses on helping students to build and use background knowledge, which increases their chances of academic success. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 French - AUGMENTER LES CONNAISSANCES PRÉALABLES |
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| Make Room for Building Knowledge of Text Structures Explicit instruction about text structures helps readers effectively navigate text and improve their comprehension and their understanding of how ideas are shaped for different purposes. This ALERT suggests a number of instructional strategies to support students in developing their awareness and understanding of text structure. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| Make Room for Developing Subject-Specific Vocabulary Vocabulary is a major factor which influences comprehension. This ALERT suggests ways to explicit teach and guide vocabulary building so students can improve comprehension and develop more sophisticated writing. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| ALERT: Make Room For Engaging in Inquiry Learning In this ALERT, the relationship between literacy and inquiry is explored. Explicit strategies are shared for supporting students to meet the literacy demands of inquiry. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| Make Room for Evaluating Perspectives and Biases This ALERT focuses on critical literacy by suggesting how to help students to evaluate perspectives and biases in texts. Provided are ideas for supporting students to strengthen their skills to think more independently, analyse information for validity, credibility and reliability, and actively make decisions about what to do with the texts. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 French - ÉVALUER LES POINTS DE VUE ET LES PRÉJUGÉS |
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| ALERT: Make Room For Evaluating Sources of Information This ALERT focusses on supporting students with explicit strategies for evaluating sources to determine whether they are credible, accurate, valid and useful. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| ALERT: Make Room for Inferring During Reading This ALERT focusses on specific strategies that students can use to effectively ‘read between the lines’ and make meaning from implicit information in text. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| Make Room for Students to Pose and Pursue Questions This ALERT focuses on promoting the use of purposeful learning conversations to support adolescent literacy needs. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 French - ENSEIGNER AUX ÉLÈVES À S’INTERROGER |
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| ALERT: Make Room for Supporting Student Collaboration This ALERT includes a number of supports to structure collaborative working groups that can helps learners develop a range of literacy skills that they may not be able to develop and strengthen by working independently. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 |
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| Making Room for Talking to Learn This ALERT focuses on enabling students to pose and pursue their own questions, which helps them to become self-directed, reflective learners. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 French - LA DISCUSSION COMME MOYEN D’APPRENTISSAGE |
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| Necessary for Some: How to Help Students Who Struggle with Reading This ALERT focuses on meeting the needs of students who are struggling with reading. Letter 8.5X11 Tabloid 11X17 French - COMMENT AIDER LES ÉLÈVES QUI ONT DE LA DIFFICULTÉ EN LECTURE |
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