The Adolescent Literacy KnowledgeBase : Element 4 : Activity 2 : Task 8: Support Special Needs Students
Integrating instructional strategies for special needs students plays an important part in improving the literacy of adolescent special needs students. Possessing an awareness of literacy instruction with special needs students enables middle and high school teachers to enhance instructional strategies for these students.
According to its website, "Bookshare's goal is to make the world of print accessible to people with disabilities." Bookshare membership is currently free to U.S. schools and individual students with qualifying individualized education programs (IEPs) through an award by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
This Center on Instruction document provides educators research-based guidance for intervening with struggling adolescent readers.
As noted at the Center on Instruction's website, "this practice brief focuses on the five reading components adolescents need to succeed in school and beyond. Each component - word study, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation - discussed in terms of the available research, comparisons of successful and struggling readers' behaviors, and recommended instructional practices."
This Center on Instruction guidance document is aimed at state-level policy makers as they work to improve adolescent literacy.
This report from the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities explores adolescent literacy issues for older students with disabilities.
This link is to a What Works Clearinghouse practices guide addressing adolescent literacy. The guide evaluates the strength of the research on actions teachers and literacy specialists can take to improve adolescent literacy.
This link is to a Center on Instruction document addressing language and reading interventions for English language learners (ELLs) and ELL students with disabilities.
This page at AdLit.org provides a list of resources targeted to students with learning disabilities.
This link is to a Center on Instruction research synthesis of 29 studies addressing instructional approaches for enhancing reading comprehension in upper elementary, middle, and high school students with learning disabilities.
This link is to a Center on Instruction synopsis of Writing Next strategies.




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