ANNOTATED BIBILIOGRAPHY

Annotated Bibiliography

Annotated Bibiliography

Adolescent literacy intervention programs

Shanahan, C. (2005). Adolescent literacy intervention programs. Retrieved April 1, 2009 from the Learning Point Associates website at: www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/intervention.pdf

This publication is a reconsider of twenty-five literacy interventions focusing on scholars in degrees four through twelve who are one or more years underneath degree grade in reading. Each intervention reconsider includes: publisher, scribe, publication designated day, theoretical groundwork, study clues, effectiveness facts and numbers, teaching obligations, and assessments. The article furthermore encompasses a helpful reconsider direct with a tallying rubric conceived to aid schools to make the most acquainted conclusion as they design to invest in a literacy intervention. There are six foremost constituents in the rubric: phrase investigation, language, fluency, understanding, critical reading/multiliteracies, and writing. There is furthermore a rubric for tallying study clues which apparently interprets the measures of clues needed for diverse grades of effectiveness.

Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it

Goldberger, S. & Bayerl, K. (2008). Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it. Retrieved April 1, 2009 from the Jobs for the Future website at: www.jff.org/Documents/mathachievementpix.pdf

The item mainly recounts the efforts of one little school to boost the numbers accomplishment of scholars from few assemblies who are disappointed and disengaged from numbers learning. The University Park Campus School (UPCS) in Worcester, MA have conceived a numbers program for degrees 7-12 that emphasizes direction grounded in a multiple answer set about to difficulty explaining and with exact vigilance to evolving not only mathematical considering but self-assurance, resolve, and a yearn to take discovering risks. Lessons wise from UPCS and the Early College High School Initiative are identified: little school dimensions, we can manage it school heritage, rigorous curriculum with carries for scholars to double-check achievement, and mapping curriculum back from school to middle school to set instructional goals.

Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research-based recommendations for serving adolescent newcomers

Francis, D., Rivera, M., Lesaux, N., Kieffer, M., & Rivera, H. (2006). Practical guidelines for the education of English language learners: Research-based recommendations for serving adolescent newcomers.

This direct characterises adolescent newcomer and boasts recommendations to aid in both content and literacy development. Recommendations encompass incorporating content discovering with literacy direction and direction on understanding schemes to get access to content. ...