View Research Summaries by Keyword
Below please find a list of keywords and a brief definition of how they are defined here. Select any keyword to see a list of research summaries relating to that keyword.- Content area literacy
- Instruction embedded in content, including language arts teachers using content area texts and content area teachers providing instruction in literacy strategies and processes
- Coordinated programs
- Comprehensive, coherent conceptualizations of literacy efforts which are interdisciplinary and inclusive of the home, community, and other out-of-school entities
- Culturally responsive instruction
- Awareness, understanding, and valuing of sociocultural aspects of literacy, including language, gender, race, and class
- Diverse texts
- Texts on a variety of levels and variety of topics; includes multicultural literature, non-print texts, student writing as text
- Explicit comprehension instruction
- Intentional instruction in strategies and processes that readers use to construct meaning from what they read
- Instructional models
- Pedagogical models, particularly of interest for literacy leaders and therefore often cross-keyed with leadership
- Leadership
- Information for all who take leadership positions in literacy, including teachers and administrators, students and parents, policy makers and citizens
- Motivation
- Strategies and processes that increase adolescents' motivation and engagement in literacy, broadly defined to include print and non-print, school and out-of-school, academic and personal.
- Response to reading
- How adolescents respond to their reading and the role that others play in this process.
- Technologies
- Multiple technologies, including media literacies
- Text-based discussion
- Student interaction around a variety of texts
- Writing instruction
- Intensive instruction on writing processes and strategies
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