This book gives you the detailed information, specific strategies, ready-to-use templates, and extensive booklists and references that you need to turn solid research-based ideas into practice.

Introduction: adolescent literacy in perspective -- Reading and writing in English classes -- Transportable and transparent strategies for content literacy instruction -- Time spent "just reading": a nonnegotiable -- Interventions and support for struggling adolescents -- Leadership and schoolwide support for literacy -- Coda: a student's perspective on improving adolescent literacy -- Appendix A: a call to action -- Appendix B: adolescent literacy.