Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy: Action Steps for Schoolwide Success

by Judith Irvin (Editor), Nancy Dean, Julie Meltzer

Administrators will find a user-friendly, five-stage planning process with six essential rubrics for developing, implementing, monitoring, and sustaining a successful literacy initiative for Grades 4-12.

248 pages, Paperback

First published March 2, 2010

Reviews

[Sherri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genre: Educational Resource

Rating: **** I found this book to be helpful in looking at where my school and I are in developing a literacy plan. The rubrics are extremely useful.

Summary: Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy uses a 5-stage framework to guide planning, implementation, and monitoring a literacy plan. Each stage builds upon a school or district’s existing literacy plans and focuses on six detailed rubrics. Examples, checklists and assessments, and a glossary of terms are included.

[Elisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy is a great resource for anyone trying to bring about change in his/her school. The book lays out step by step how to build a literacy leadership team, write a literacy action goal, implement a plan to achieve the goal, and carry out the plan. The book also has some great rubrics to help literacy leadership teams decide what their goal should be. The book is laid out in a user friendly manner and is easy to read.