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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPurple Heart Patricia McCormick. 2009. New York: HarperCollins. The worst damage Private Matt Duffy sustains when he is injured in a firelight in a back alley in Sadr City, Iraq, may not be his traumatic brain...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe opening paragraphs of "Helping Preservice Reading Teachers Learn to Read and Conduct Research to Inform Their Instruction" by Alan M. Frager, published in the November 2010 issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNuts Kacy Cook. 2010. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish. Eleven-year-old Nell's life changes unexpectedly when she finds a baby squirrel in her backyard. She and her two younger brothers wait for the mother...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedEffective Practice for Adolescents With Reading and Literacy Challenges Lou Denti and Gilbert Guerin (Eds.). 2008. New York: Routledge. Every educator, no matter what subject matter he or she teaches, will...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedResearch-Based Reading Strategies in the Library for Adolescent Learners Carianne Bernadowski and Patricia Liotta Kolencik. 2010. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. Teacher-librarians in secondary schools...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedHaving done some reading in the literature over the past 12 years, I would like to report: neuroscience research hasn't proven very much yet about reading instruction. (Brain research on reading processes and...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedDon Nilsen corresponded with David Macinnis Gill by e-mail. Dr. Nilsen is a professor of linguistics at Arizona State University. Dr. Gill is a professor of English education at the University of North Carolina...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn reading education circles, fluency (or rate) has historically taken a back seat to word recognition and comprehension (Allington, 1983; Rasinski, 2006). With the turn of the century, however, things have changed....
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSoul Enchilada: The Devil Is in the Details David Macinnis 13i11.2009. New York: HarperCollins. David Macinnis Gill's book is very Faustian, but the souls that are collected are not significant and are only snacks...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWhen educators talk about a multiplicity of literacies--computer literacies, situated literacies, local literacies, eco literacies--it is as if there can be endless additions to the basic concept of (print) literacy...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedLinger Maggie Stiefvater. 2010, New York: L Scholastic. Linger continues the story begun in Shiver, a love story between a boy who was once a wolf and the girl who loved him back to humanity. Sam and Grace have...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSince the inception of the Writing Across the Curriculum movement more than 30 years ago (see Reiss, 1996; Russell, 1990; Walvoord, 1996), scholars have been interested in ways of enhancing university students' writing...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedLockdown Diane Tullson. 2008. Victoria, BC, Canada: Orca. Fire drill. Tornado drill. Lockdown drill. We all have been through the seemingly endless array of drills at school. But what happens when the drill is not...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAs an educator, have you ever felt that group work just was not working in your classroom? Observing your students, have you ever been reminded of the times your classmates and you socialized instead of collaborating,...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNorthward la the Moon Polly Horvath. 2010. New York: Schwartz & Wade. Part mystery, part adventure, part (unrequited) romance, part western, and a slice of improbable life is served up in this story of a family on...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe texts that adolescents encounter today are often multimodal, meaning they incorporate a variety of modes, including visual images, hypertext, and graphic design elements along with written text. Expanding the...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedHalf Brother Kenneth Oppel. 2010. New York: Scholastic. On his 13th birthday, Ben arrives at his new home in Victoria, Canada, after traveling across the United States with his father. Hours after their arrival,...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMost scholars and educators agree that digital technologies are changing literacy. One perspective emphasizes differences in the content of traditional and digital literacies. From this perspective, traditional literacy...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe Gardener S.A. Bodeen. 2010. New York: Feiwel and Friends. Mason has found a way to exploit the results of a dog attack that happened when he was 5 and that left him disfigured. Realizing the effect his facial...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedLesko (2001) has argued that a "remade adolescence must take up the contradictions of being simultaneously mature and immature, old and young, traditional and innovative" (p. 196). Common sense assumptions might lead...