Description: This publication written by a collaborative effort of the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, The National Science Teachers Association and the National Council for the Social Studies has brought together a standards based approach for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches. It is an ideal that will serve as a guide for school administrators, leadership teams and other educational service providers to help develop highly qualified literacy coaches in the middle and high school levels.

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This report (developed by a NASBE Study Group on Middle and Secondary School Literacy) sets the stage for schools and districts to improve adolescent literacy for all of their students. It provides a framework of how to accomplish this monumental task. It offers states a six step approach to creating a broad system of support to implement a statewide literacy plan.

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This report is provided by the Carnegie Corporation and the Alliance for Excellent Education and provides a set of recommendations, drawn up by a panel of five nationally known and respected educational researchers, for how to meet the needs of our eight million struggling readers (grades 4-12) and also gives insight into how to keep the momentum going. It offers fifteen recommendations that make up the elements of an effective adolescent literacy program. It also gives suggestions and insight into the optimal mix of these elements.

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This document from the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) advocates that state literacy policies and programs must lead to actual instructional changes in the classroom. Those instituting the literacy policy must facilitate the connection of policy to actual classroom practices.

This document details actions that must be taken at each level: the state; the district; the school; and ultimately, the classroom that are necessary to impact the policy to practice purpose. Actions are organized around: planning; quality of teaching; use of data; instructional infrastructure; and accountability.

This document can have profound implications for the development and implementation of policies improving literacy instruction for all students. It makes a good companion piece to NASBE’s Reading at Risk: The State Response to the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy.

Description: In this publication by the Alliance for Excellent Education the authors challenge readers to think about the importance of the relationship between the success students will have after high school graduation and the quality of the instruction they receive in high school in all of their content area classes on literacy.  Content area literacy instruction must be an integral part of any states' secondary school improvement movement.