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Gordie Jessup’s older brother, Chase, is in jail for aggravated assault while his victim lies comatose in intensive care. So begins Gordie’s account of his brother’s perilous addiction to crystal methamphetamine. As the story opens Chase is two years into his addiction. A bright, conscientious 16-year-old, Gordie takes school seriously, plays the bass guitar in […]

In his latest novel for young adults Matt de la Pena describes the life-altering summer of Danny Lopez, a biracial high school student spending the summer with his father’s relatives in a low-income, predominately Mexican town just north of the Mexican border near San Diego, California. Danny has moved a great deal in his young […]

Disaggregating facets of comprehension that benefit from explicit emphases is especially beneficial. Scholars such as P. David Pearson, Michael Pressley, and their colleagues have described proficient reading behaviors; strategic thinking that can be teased into the open and talked about. Instructional strategies can prompt and support such behaviors. For example, I have found the work […]

Research can justify a constellation of literacy practices that guides instruction toward the development of readers and writers in academic disciplines. For example, the research on questioning in comprehension, in terms of the questions asked of students as well as the questions students generate themselves makes a case for a series of well-known applications: K-W-L, […]

This issue of Research Connections highlights the ways Doug Buehl links research with practice. Doug has been an active literacy professional at the local, state, and national levels for 30 years. During this time, he was a social studies teacher and reading specialist/literacy coach at Madison (WI) East High School and a district adolescent literacy […]