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To explore students’ experiences with reading alternative texts, I asked students to complete a questionnaire that assessed their reactions to self-selected forensics trade books drawn from the school library, which was also a public library. Their books included forensic fiction, graphic novels, and forensic nonfiction. The questions focused on the nature of the book, their […]

If has been estimated that as many as 70% of adolescents–students in grades 4–12–have difficulty reading in some manner and require direct, explicit instructional interventions to expand their word recognition, decoding, reading fluency, and comprehension skills (Biancarosa & Snow, 2006). These adolescents are unable to maintain grade level literacy skills because of such factors as […]

Texts that are connected to “real and imagined material and social worlds” (Gee, 2001, p. 716) include the type that many readers have always found appealing: powerfully engaging narratives. Engaging with a compelling narrative is what Morrison (1994) called “radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created” (p. 27). Readers can thus […]

Lorenz Lara is the Secondary Literacy Coordinator for the Denver (Colorado) Public Schools, a system with 16 high schools and 16 middle schools. Previously, she was a bilingual teacher and district-level secondary literacy coach. She is currently an adjunct professor, trainer for curriculum materials, and presenter at national conferences and professional development sessions. Lorenza specializes […]

As stated earlier, Mrs.Stelkan and I conducted this trial using action research. The students had one month of traditional textbook reading, questioning, and review, followed by a chapter test.The baseline scores on the first chapter test were an average of 86%. The same 73 students took the chapter test for the second chapter, which was […]