Research: Reading Instruction in Grades 4-12

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• Advancing Adolescent Literacy: The Cornerstone of School Reform
• Advancing Our Students' Language and Literacy: The Challenge of Complex Texts
• Approaches to Writing Instruction for Adolescent English Language Learners: A Discussion of Recent Research and Practice Literature in Relation to Nationwide Standards on Writing
• Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth
• Drop Everything and Read — But How? For Students Who Are Not Yet Fluent, Silent Reading Is Not the Best Use of Classroom Time
• Enabling Academic Success For Secondary Students with Limited Formal Schooling: A Study of the Haitian Literacy Program at Hyde Park High School in Boston
• Improving Literacy Outcomes for English Language Learners in High School: Considerations for States and Districts in Developing a Coherent Policy Framework
• Making Writing Instruction a Priority in America's Middle and High Schools
• Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners
• Meeting the Literacy Development Needs of Adolescent English Language Learners Through Content Area Learning (Part 1): Focus on Motivation and Engagement
• Meeting the Literacy Development Needs of Adolescent English Language Learners Through Content Area Learning (Part 2): Focus on Classroom Teaching and Learning Strategies
• Teaching English Language Learners: What the Research Does — and Does Not — Say
• Teaching Literacy in English to K-5 English Learners
• The Relation Between First- and Second-Language Skills: Evidence from Puerto Rican Elementary School Children in Bilingual Programs
• Urgent but Overlooked: The Literacy Crisis Among Adolescent English Language Learners
• What Does Research Tell Us About Teaching Reading to English Language Learners?