What Really Matters for Middle School Readers: From Research to Practice

About this book

The latest from well-known author and literacy expert Richard Allington is intended as the first step in preparing future teachers to provide early adolescents with high-quality literacy instruction. What Really Matters for Middle School Readers: From Research to Practice looks at the areas that struggling adolescents find most difficultmeaning vocabulary (especially for academic words) and inferential comprehensionand focuses on ways to foster accelerated growth. Dr. Allington stresses that through expanding the volume of high-success reading that students experience each day as well as through the wide variety of additional classroom strategies and methodologies included in the text middle school students can achieve a working literacy proficiency.