All About
Adolescent Literacy (http://www.adlit.org ) is a website that offers
resources to parents and educators of kids in grades 4-12. This website is a
multimedia project that offers various information and resources for parents
and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. The Adolescent Literacy website’s mission is
based on research and findings that show that a majority of adolescents to
include influencing factors such as one’s SES and ethnicity are not reading at
their proficient level. With Adolescent Literacy, their goal is to assist the
nation in launching topics, strategies, and best-practice information to support
the literacy development of adolescents.
The Adolescent Literacy website
offers strategies that can be used to build vocabulary, comprehension, and
writing skills for before, during, and after reading. In addition, professional
development resources are provided that also revolve around implementing
instructional literacy strategies such as literacy coaching in the middle
grades, using student engagement to improve adolescent literacy, and many more
to include leadership, teacher-student interaction, and building a positive
school climate. Videos are also included
to address Common Core in the classroom for example, using 6th grade
reading standards to teach identifying key ideas and supporting details. Articles
are also included to address tips on helping struggling readers, working with
families to increase parental involvement, research reports, and books/author
reviews that educators can view at their leisure time at no cost as well.
The website also features a “Just
for Fun” tab that are linked to other sites that offer incentives and
activities that students can use. For example, there are writing contests that
students can join and set a goal for themselves. There are also word play
activities such as FreeRice (http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1426 ) a site that enforces vocabulary,
visual thesaurus (https://www.visualthesaurus.com ), and crossword puzzles to name a
few.
Lastly, considering that this website
is geared towards adolescence, it includes articles and good reads on hot
topics about content-area literacy, service learning, background knowledge,
motivation and engagement, social and emotional issues, along with all literacy
topics such as comprehension, fluency, phonics/decoding, writing, and
vocabulary. In addition to getting adolescents to build and improve literacy
skills, this site features resources about college readiness, academic rigor,
early college awareness, dropout prevention, and research/reports regarding
students navigating the college path, students who don’t enroll into college,
and closing the expectation gap to name a few.
In conclusion, the All About
Adolescent Literacy website is geared towards secondary educators specifically
educators with students in grades 4-12. The site is user friendly and easy to
navigate. Although its mission is built to provide resources for educators to
bridge the gap in literacy so that students can become more proficient, the
website also features topics that typical adolescents begin to face as they get
older and that educators need to address to build awareness.
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