Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction

by Alyce Hunter, Alyce Hunter

"Quite simply, I would love to have had Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction as a secondary language arts teacher.... The book makes me itch to go back to my secondary classroom to see how I could use contemporary technologies as vehicles for differentiation." Carol Ann Tomlinson As a secondary teacher, Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction shows you how to effectively respond to the growing crisis in adolescent literacy. It's the first book that shows how to base lessons on students' strengths and target back-up instruction to their needs so they can improve in literacy, master content, and meet the demands of higher-level learning. In Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction, Barbara King-Shaver and Alyce Hunter summon the latest research and share effective, essential differentiation practices. With more than 30 replicable models and practical ideas for managing differentiated classrooms, King-Shaver and Hunter help Drawing on NCTE's guidelines for promoting adolescent literacy, King-Shaver and Hunter offer suggestions for teaching not only reading, writing, listening, and speaking but also viewing multimedia texts and engaging with digital literacy. Read Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction , use its study guide with colleagues, and discover that with adolescent literacy, the best way to make a difference is by embracing difference.

Genres: Nonfiction, Professional Development

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Ronni]

Pulled this off the shelf to browse through while lesson planning for a heterogeneously grouped writing class recently, and ended up perusing it instead. (I'm using peruse in the SAT manner here rather than the common/misuse manner.) I can think of at least three books that were assigned in teacher school that should all be replace by this book. More "how-to" than "why-to." Chock full of great ideas that seem totally do-able instead of, as some instructors I've known make differentiation sound, something you'd consider a real challenge. The few ideas I implemented were hits with me and with my students. Accessible and useful info, broken down by different areas of Language Arts instruction, easily adapted ideas and flexible concepts, and most importantly, none of that "this is extra" or "this is hard" nonsense. Winner!