Publications
Check It Out! Assessing School Library Media Programs. Sacramento: California Department of Education, 1998.
Fearn, Leif, and Nancy Farnan. Interactions: Teaching Writing and the Language Arts . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Fisher, Douglas. We're Moving on Up: Creating a Schoolwide Literacy Effort in an Urban High School, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Vol. 45, No. 2 (October 2001), 92.
Fisher, Douglas, and Nancy Frey. Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work. Columbus, Ohio: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
Hiebert, James, and James W. Stigler. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom. New York: Free Press, 1999.
Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, 1998.
Lambuth, David, and others. Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.
Marzano, Robert J. What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action. Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2003.
The National Writing Project and Carl Nagin. Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
Pilgreen, Janice L. The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000.
Reading/Language Arts Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve. Sacramento: California Department of Education, 1999.
Strategic Teaching and Learning: Standards-Based Instruction to Promote Content Literacy in Grades Four Through Twelve. Sacramento: California Department of Education, 2000.
Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Six Principles of Effective Accountability: (Outside Source)This article by Douglas B. Reeves, chairman and founder of the Center for Performance Assessment and the International Center for Educational Accountability, identifies six principles of effective school-based accountability systems: congruence, specificity, relevance, respect for diversity, continuous improvement, and focus on achievement, not norms.
Online Resources
Adolescent literacy in the content areas: Knowledge Loom's (Outside Source) Web site, developed by the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University, offers a collection of resources on adolescent literacy in the content areas.
Building Reading Proficiency at the Secondary Level: A Guide to Resources: (Outside Source) This guide presents background information on building reading proficiency at the secondary level; resources that teachers can use with struggling secondary readers; a discussion of the procedures used to develop the guide; and a list of additional resources.
Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication: (Outside Source) This clearinghouse provides educational materials and services to those interested in reading and the language arts.
Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension: (Outside Source) This article outlines research about reading comprehension and discusses strategies that proficient readers use to understand content. Authors Nell K. Duke and P. David Pearson describe approaches that teachers can use to help learners acquire skills and master processes for drawing meaning from text.
Effective Reading Instruction: What Does It Look Like? (Outside Source) This document presents a concise summary of findings on the elements of an effective reading instruction program for beginning readers, intermediate readers, students in middle schools and high schools, and struggling readers. Additional resources on these topics are provided.
Guidelines for Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well: (PDF; 2.80MB; 16pp.) (Outside Source) From the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement and author Judith Langer, this publication reports on six features of schools in which students "beat the odds," reading and writing at high levels of proficiency and outperforming their peers on standardized tests of English skills.
School library-related research: This Web page offers a comprehensive listing of school library research and the sites that review literature for library media program development is provided.
Six Principles of Effective Accountability: (Outside Source)This article by Douglas B. Reeves, chairman and founder of the Center for Performance Assessment and the International Center for Educational Accountability, identifies six principles of effective school-based accountability systems: congruence, specificity, relevance, respect for diversity, continuous improvement, and focus on achievement, not norms.
Six Traits (Outside Source) lesson plans: This Web page discusses teaching strategies and tools that can be used to assist students in developing the six traits of an effective reader identified by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.
Six Traits of an Effective Reader: (Outside Source) This article by Dean Arrasmith and Kevin Dwyer of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory discusses six traits of effective readers. It explains each of the six traits and offers approaches for using them in classroom instruction.
WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative: (Outside Source) This initiative is a professional development and research program that focuses on educators in middle schools and high schools. The program promotes students' engagement and achievement in reading texts in their content area classes. Various resources from this program are available online.
White House Conference on School Libraries: (Outside Source) Proceedings from the White House Conference on School Libraries held in June 2002 include the full text of the presenters' remarks. Speakers included researcher Keith Curry Lance, Director of Library Research Service, Colorado State Library, who has authored many landmark library studies; and Gary Hartsell, Professor of Educational Administration and Supervision at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, whose talk " What's It Take?" presented school library issues as they apply to administrators.
Organizations
American Library
Association (Outside Source)
The American Library Association promotes the highest-quality
library and information services and public access to information.
This Web site includes links to publications, position statements,
analyses of crucial issues, and more.
International
Reading Association (Outside Source)
The International Reading Association is a professional organization
that promotes high levels of literacy by improving the quality
of reading instruction, disseminating research and information
about reading, and encouraging lifelong reading. Many of the resources
at this Web site address the area of content literacy.
National Council
of Teachers of English (Outside Source)
This council is devoted to improving the teaching and learning
of English and the language arts at all levels. Resources at this
Web site discuss approaches for teaching reading comprehension
and content literacy.
National Institute
for Literacy (Outside Source)
This instiute is a federal organization that shares information
about literacy and supports the development of high-quality literacy
services so that all Americans can develop essential literacy
skills.
National
Writing Project (Outside Source)
Recognizing the importance of teachers' knowledge, expertise,
and leadership, this project is dedicated to improving student
learning and the teaching of writing nationwide. A variety of
resources, including publications and programs pertaining to the
teaching of writing, are offered at this Web site.
