Sentences with phrase «needs of adolescent literacy»

Although I wholeheartedly support the importance of building an early foundation in literacy, it often comes at the price of a lack of resources and attention to the needs of adolescent literacy learners.

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Now living in Washington, D.C., Hecker is the founder and president of Reach Incorporated, a nonprofit organization focused on improving literacy skills by offering struggling adolescent readers an opportunity to tutor in high - need D.C. elementary schools.

09, is the founder and president of Reach Incorporated, a nonprofit organization focused on improving literacy skills by offering struggling adolescent readers an opportunity to tutor in high - need D.C. elementary schools.

Now, a study of three adolescent literacy projects reveals instructional approaches that can help teens develop the reading skills they need for consuming 21st - century texts.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

Leading figures in education policy, academia, and philanthropy called today for a «re-engineering» of the nation's approach to adolescent literacy, saying nothing short of a «literacy revolution» is needed to keep students in school and ensure that they are able to learn the complex material that college and careers will demand of them.

The experts gathered to discuss and draw attention to the release of the final report of the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy, which has spent five years examining the need for better reading and writing skills among students in grades 4 through...

Our experience working with school - based adolescent literacy projects confirms the need to put professional development at the heart of such efforts.

The initiative entitled «Adolescent Literacy Partnerships: Meeting the Needs of All Students» focuses on promoting the replication of the initiative throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

CCSSO's Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was developed by the Council and multiple partners in response to a state - identified need to develop the skills, knowledge, and resources of content - area high school teachers to implement adolescent literacy best practices and strategies in their cAdolescent Literacy Toolkit was developed by the Council and multiple partners in response to a state - identified need to develop the skills, knowledge, and resources of content - area high school teachers to implement adolescent literacy best practices and strategies in their claLiteracy Toolkit was developed by the Council and multiple partners in response to a state - identified need to develop the skills, knowledge, and resources of content - area high school teachers to implement adolescent literacy best practices and strategies in their cadolescent literacy best practices and strategies in their claliteracy best practices and strategies in their classrooms.

Pediatricians need to consider the literacy and health literacy levels of parents, guardians, children, and adolescents completing screens, whether the instrument should be administered in English or another language, and whether the person completing the screen will need additional help.

Elise has primary responsibility for a wide range of Child Development initiatives, including the annual Autism, Behavior, and Complex Medical Needs (ABC) Conferences, People Safe Places (PSP) as part of the Tools to Empower Adolescent Moms (TEAM) initiative, the Promoting Early Math Literacy project, and activities related to Promoting Resiliency of Trauma — Exposed Communities Together (PROTECT), funded by HRSA.