1. Adolescents
deserve access to a wide
2. Adolescents deserve instruction that builds
3. Adolescents deserve assessment that shows
them their strengths as well as their needs
variety of
reading material that they can
and want to read (p. 4).2. Adolescents deserve instruction that builds
both the skill
and desire to read increasingly
complex materials (p. 5).3. Adolescents deserve assessment that shows
them their strengths as well as their needs
and that guides
their teachers to design instruction
that will best
help them grow
as readers (p.6).
4. Adolescents
deserve expert teachers who
model and
provide explicit instruction in
reading
comprehension and study strategies
across the curriculum (p.7).
5. Adolescents
deserve reading specialists
who assist
individual students having difficulty
learning how to read (p.7).
6. Adolescents
deserve teachers who understand
the complexities
of individual adolescent
readers, respect
their differences, and
respond to their
characteristics (p.8).
7. Adolescents
deserve homes, communities,
and a nation
that will support their efforts to
achieve advanced
levels of literacy and provide
the support
necessary for them to
succeed (p.9).
Moore, D. W., Bean, T. W.,
Birdyshaw, D., & Rycik, J. A. (1999). Adolescent literacy: A position
statement for the Commission on Adolescent Literacy of the International
Reading Association. Retrieved September 24, 2004, from http://www.reading.org/downloads/positions/ps1036_adolescent.pdf
