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• Learning to link research, practice, and disciplinary literacies: an interview with Darin Stockdill

  Author:David W. MooreFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20111,586 words Interview 1320LDarin Stockdill is a doctoral candidate in the Literacy, Language, and Culture concentration in the Educational Studies program at the University of Michigan. He has served as a community literacy program coordinator,...

• Countdown

  Author:Cynthia KieferFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2011823 words Book review, Childre... 1440LCountdown Deborah Wiles. 2010. New York: Scholastic. Countdown, the first volume in Deborah Wiles's The Sixties Trilogy, entices readers with its bright yellow cover featuring a nostalgically centered 45 rpm...

• Adolescents and "autographics": reading and writing coming-of-age graphic novels: reading and writing graphic novels can be motivating for struggling students and reluctant readers, and can also support development of the multimodal literacy skills needed for school and workplace success in the 21st century

  Authors:Janette Michelle Hughes, Alyson King, Peggy Perkins, and Victor FukeFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20115,467 words Report 1330LOn the first day of a project that explored reading and writing coming-of-age novels, a grade 11 student in a workplace preparation English class declared openly (and somewhat proudly) that he had "never finished a...

• Paper Daughter

  Author:Donna MillerFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20112,019 words Article 1340LPaper Daughter Jeanette Ingold. 2010. New York: Harcourt. Who are we? Who will we be? These are questions we never stop asking or answering. Jeanette Ingold writes a story of that asking and answering in Paper...

• TECHnology and literacy for adolescents with disabilities: a sound decision-making framework can assist teachers in adopting and embracing current technologies and looking toward Web 3.0 in order to create universally accessible learning environments to advance literacy learning for all students, and especially students with disabilities

  Authors:Margaret Elaine King-Sears, Christopher Swanson, and Lynne MainzerFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20115,087 words Report 1480LIn today's increasingly technology-savvy world, technological devices provide a wide range of tools that educators can use to promote literacy learning. These classroom technologies (e.g., electronic tools, devices,...

• The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Twelfth Grade Kills

  Author:James BlasingameFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2011501 words Book review, Young a... 1140LThe Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Twelfth Grade Kills Heather Brewer. 2010. New York: Dutton Juvenile. Vladimir Tod is just like every other teenage boy in the United States. He has a best friend who would do...

• Kick

  Author:Keith TaylorFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2011568 words Book review, Young a... 1140LKick Dean Myers and Ross Workman. 2011. New York: HarperTeen. Kevin Johnson is in trouble. A lot of trouble. He just got arrested for crashing a car into a light pole with his friend Christy McNamara in the...

• The reading behavior of junior secondary students during school holidays in Botswana: despite reports that suggest a lack of a reading culture, a survey of a group of 12- to 15-year-olds in Botswana indicated that reading for pleasure and for academic purposes was widespread outside junior secondary schools

  Authors:Arua E. Arua and Comfort E. AruaFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20115,754 words Report 1290LReports of the poor reading culture of Batswana appear periodically in the popular media, especially the newspapers (see Baputaki, 2006; Hosia, 2007; Seboni & Swartland, 2009). These impressionistic reports speak of an...

• Transmediation in the language arts classroom: creating contexts for analysis and ambiguity: when students take concepts from the written word and present them in a new form--visual art or dance, for example--they must look closely at the structure of text and find new ways to articulate its meaning

  Author:Jennifer McCormickFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20115,264 words Report 1180LIn search of opportunities to increase student engagement, Judy Perlmutter, a sixth-grade language arts teacher, read aloud three poems by Langston Hughes, a U.S. poet of the Harlem Renaissance, and asked her students...

• Feel These Words: Writing in the Lives of Urban Youth

  Author:Sirpa GriersonFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20111,590 words Book review 1410LFeel These Words: Writing in the Lives of Urban Youth Susan Weinstein. 2009. Albany: State University of New York Press. In 1992, my husband and I moved our family to Jackson, Mississippi, for a four-year business...

• "Rap Universal": using multimodal media production to develop ICT literacies: instead of teaching reading and writing as universally applicable neutral skills, teachers in an after-school program taught media production as a relevant sociocultural practice, with the result that students gained skills in both media use and critical literacies

  Author:K.C. Nat TurnerFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20116,333 words Report 1510LIt is 5:30 p.m. at Fanon Middle School, an urban public school in one of northern California's most impoverished, lowest performing districts. (All names of locations and participants, with the exception of Mr. Soto,...

• Cryer's Cross

  Author:Melissa WilliamsonFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2011322 words Book review, Brief a... 1130LCryer's Cross Lisa McMann. 2011. New York: Simon & Schuster. If you want to read something creepy (yet enjoyable), pick up Cryer's Cross, the new stand-alone novel by Lisa McMann, which is completely different...

• Take it out of class: exploring virtual literature circles: integrating technology into literature discussion enables authentic reading experiences that honor the voices of students who have diverse ideas, communication styles, and confidence levels

  Author:Joy Bowers-CampbellFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20115,920 words Report 1270LWhen my daughter was 10, I interviewed her for a class project aimed at investigating reading habits. We discussed what she enjoyed reading and the approaches her teachers used to teach reading. In particular, she...

• Behemoth

  Author:James BlasingameFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2011963 words Book review, Young a... 1570LBehemoth Westerfeld. 2010. New York: Simon Pulse. Scott Westerfeld delivers the goods once more in this satisfying sequel to Leviathan, his alternative reality story based on historically factual people and events...

• SkateFate

  Author:Hiam Kogiashvili-AmarFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2011476 words Book review, Young a... 1160LSkateFate Juan Felipe Herrera. 2011. New York: Rayo/HarperCollins. Luciano Zacarias Flores, or "Lucky Z," as he likes to call himself, experiences the same challenges that any other senior at Pacifico Heights High...

• Literacy With an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest (2nd ed.)

  Author:Erin Feinauer WhitingFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 54, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20111,441 words Book review 1370LLiteracy With an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest (2nd ed.) Patrick J. Finn. 2009. Albany: State University of New York Press. The ways in which we define problems are crucial...