Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy
Strategies for Learning

Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy: Strategies for Learning is the ultimate resource for secondary teachers who seek to improve student learning. This accessible, well-organized compendium makes it easy for teachers of any content area to find and use the right research-based literacy strategies—those that will increase student learning. Examples from science, social studies, math, and English language arts show how to integrate reading, writing, and critical thinking across the curriculum. Each chapter explores the research foundation for a particular aspect of literacy, suggests key resources, defines critical issues, and then provides concrete strategies for actively engaging students in reading, writing, talking, and listening. Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy includes:

• The most relevant research on literacy and its applications for classrooms
• Tools to aid reflection and implementation of new strategies
• Over 50 strategies for engaging adolescent learners, empowering strategic learning, building comprehension, developing vocabulary, and writing to learn
• Over two dozen reproducibles for teachers and students