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Happy Spring! I hope you were able to spend part of Women's History month reading MG and YA books with strong women characters. I reread Meg Medina's The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind and was reminded of her powerful message to YA readers, especially young women, "Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life." Speak Soon,
Carrie Simkin, PhD
Director, AdLit |
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Supporting Teacher Knowledge: AdLit 101 |
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What’s being done to improve the teaching of reading and writing in our secondary schools? And what can you do to teach reading and writing more effectively in your classroom?
Our new AdLit 101 Learning Modules are designed to help you get up to speed on recent research and policy developments, to give you some practical advice on infusing reading and writing skills into your instruction, and to point you towards a wide range of resources. Are you ready to get started?
Module 1 — The Big Picture of Adolescent Literacy
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Module 2 — Motivating Adolescent Learners
Module 3 — Essentials of Adolescent Literacy Instruction
Additional learning modules coming in late spring! Content Area & Discipline Specific Literacy Instruction Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature Designing Adolescent Literacy Interventions |
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New AdLit Blog: Making History |
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| The Grateful American Foundation and AdLit are proud partners in bringing you the Making History blog.
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Jessica Lander is an award-winning teacher, writer, and author. She teaches history and civics to recent immigrant students in a Massachusetts public high school and has won numerous awards for her teaching. Jessica is the author of Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education , a coauthor of Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher’s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success and the author of Driving Backwards.
In her new AdLit blog, Making History, Jessica shares her experiences bringing history to life while supporting her immigrant-origin students’ development as readers, writers, thinkers, and community changemakers.
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For the Love of Reading: From our interview with author Michelle Coles |
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| | | Young Adult novelist and Civil Rights attorney, Michelle Coles, discusses the importance of highlighting the stories of African Americans and white people who believed vehemently in the Constitution's decree that all people are created equal. |
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| Sister Site Highlight: LDonline |
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New Article: How I Learned to Embrace My Dyslexia and Thrive in and Beyond the Classroom
Hear from Amelia Mount — a smart, creative, and thoughtful tenth grader about being diagnosed with dyslexia in elementary school and learning to revel in her strengths in and beyond the classroom. |
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Read Across America: Reading Diverse Books All Year Long! |
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| NEA’s latest Read Across America digital calendar of book recommendations and related resources for 2022-23 is now available. Each month highlights a theme and a related picture book, middle book, and YA book. All of the titles in the calendar include activity suggestions, questions for discussion or reflective writing, related resources, and more titles to try. March's theme is: Bring Communities Together. |
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| | | A special thanks to the National Education Association for their support of AdLit.org. Their generous grant affirms the NEA's commitment to literacy, equity, and achievement for all of our students. |
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