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High School Literacy
Defining High School Literacy Issues | High School Literacy Strategies | Support for ELL Students | Resources for Teachers | Research on this Topic 
High school literacy is key to a high school student's overall prospects for success. Out of a student’s ability to read comes the capacity to graduate and the opportunity to gain access to the workplace and/or post-secondary education. To help educators, parents, and the general public gain awareness on this topic, the National High School Center has compiled key documents that present resources and best practices on how to effectively combat illiteracy in schools.
High School Literacy Strategies
Sustaining Focus on Secondary School Reading: Lessons and Recommendations from the Alabama Reading Initiative
The Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI) addresses literacy and includes a focus on high school students. This research brief summarizes student and teacher outcomes, lessons learned, and other findings from a recent evaluation of the Alabama Reading Initiative at the secondary school level. (September 2006)
15 Actions Your State Can Take to Maximize Young Adolescents’ Readiness for Grade 9 – and College and Careers
This issue of The Progress of Education Reform, from the Education Commission of the States, highlights key findings from recent research and publications on improving student success in the middle grades and transition into 9th grade— and identifies actions states can take to translate these findings into sound policy.
Advancing Adolescent Literacy in Urban Schools
This research brief from the Council of Great City Schools synthesizes the research on adolescent literacy, with a focus on the policies and practices that promote the development of academic literacy for accessing high school content. The authors explain the basic challenges that educators and policy makers face in adolescent literacy and discuss effective strategies for addressing those challenges.
Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction
This report, produced by the Center on Instruction, discusses the key elements of a comprehensive assessment plan to improve literacy instruction for adolescents. The report highlights the importance of using classroom-based formative assessments to frequently monitor adolescent student literacy growth and to drive effective classroom instruction based on individual student needs. The data gathered from formative assessments is important in helping classroom teachers respond to the diversity of literacy needs among students.
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices
This guide, published by the Institute for Education Sciences, presents a series of recommendations for teachingliteracy to adolescents - which the report defines as starting in fourth grade. For each recommendation, the guide includes the level of research findings supporting that recommendation, while including a checklist of particular actions to take under each recommendation.
Interventions for adolescent struggling readers: A meta-analysis with implications for practice
This report from the Center on Instruction is a meta-analysis of 31 individual studies on reading instruction for adolescent struggling readers. It provides an overview of current research, concluding that teachers can positively influence reading outcomes of older students with reading disabilities. It offers nine practical implications for the teaching of literacy within schools.
Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School
Published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, this report examines different research-based teaching techniques that help 4th through 12th grade students improve their writing skills in preparation for college and work.
