Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core

Jacy Ippolito is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of adolescent literacy, literacy coaching, school reform, and teacher leadership. Since completing his doctorate in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Ippolito has taught courses at Salem State and HGSE, and he continues to consult in Boston-area K–12 schools as a licensed reading specialist and literacy coach. Ippolito’s writing has appeared most recently in the books Adolescent Literacy (2012), Best Practices of Literacy Leaders (2012), and Essential Questions in Adolescent Literacy (2009), as well as in journals and online publications such as The Elementary School Journal (2010), Texas A&M Corpus Christi’s CEDER Yearbook (2010), the Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse (2009), the Massachusetts Reading Association’s Primer (2009; 2005), the Harvard Educational Review’s Special Issue on Adolescent Literacy (2008), and the International Reading Association’s Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches (2006). After earning his master’s degree in education from HGSE, Ippolito taught in the Cambridge Public Schools for over seven years. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in English and psychology from the University of Delaware’s Honors Program. Joshua Fahey Lawrence is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy and Technology in the Department of Education, University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on creating and testing interventions and teaching methods to improve adolescent literacy outcomes and understanding L1 and L2 language and literacy development. Lawrence’s experience as a Boston Public School teacher has motivated his interest in children’s language and literacy development. After receiving his doctorate at Boston University, Lawrence completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education under the advisement of Catherine Snow. During that time, he worked on a quasi-experimental study of the Word Generation program in Boston schools. The first paper from this study demonstrated that language-minority learners benefited more from program participation than English monolinguals did (published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness). A follow-up study suggested differential impacts for proficient and limited-proficiency language-minority students, and that improvement from program participation was sustained a year after the end of the program (in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition). More recently, Lawrence has been working on a randomized trial of the Word Generation program funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences (Catherine Snow, Principal Investigator). Lawrence is a research associate with the Strategic Educational Research Partnership and committed to leveraging the results of research to build literacy knowledge and improve instruction for struggling students. Colleen Zaller has a master’s degree in applied linguistics, with a focus on adolescent literacy and language development among English language learners. Over the past four years, she was a Research and Evaluation Associate at Brown University. She has led evaluations of the written, taught, and tested curriculum for English language learners in New York and Connecticut and has conducted implementation research of adolescent literacy interventions funded under the Striving Readers program. In addition to her work in evaluation, Zaller has delivered professional development workshops on school improvement for diverse learners and instructional approaches to enhance learning for English learners. Prior to her work at Brown University, Zaller coordinated intervention services and taught English language arts and ESL to adolescents and adults in urban settings in Baltimore, Boston, and Providence and abroad in Mexico and China.

"This book is recommended for educators who are already familiar with the common core but who are looking to hone their practices and situate them within educational theory." — M.B. Hopkins, CHOICE

• 1 Bridging Content and Literacy Knowledge and instruction: A Framework for Supporting Secondary Teachers and Students 1 Jacy Ippolito and Joshua Fahey Lawrence 2 Research in Disciplinary Literacy: Challenges and Instructional Opportunities in Teaching Disciplinary Texts 13 Emily Phillips Galloway, Joshua Fahey Lawrence, and Elizabeth Birr Moje 3 Disciplinary Literacy in Practice: The Disciplinary Literacy Network as a Vehicle for Strengthening instruction Across Content Areas 37 Lisa Messina 4 Research in Vocabulary: Word Power for Content-Area Learning 61 Joshua Fahey Lawrence, Bridget Maher, and Catherine E. Snow 5 Vocabulary in Practice: Creating Word-Curious Classrooms 73 Christina L. Dobbs 6 Research in Discussion: Effective Support for Literacy, Content, and Academic Achievement 85 Catherine J. Michener and Evelyn Ford-Connors 7 Discussion in Practice: Sharing Our Learning Curve 103 Abigail Erdmann and Margaret Metzger 8 Research in Digital Literacy: Tools to Support Learning Across the disciplines 117 Joshua Fahey Lawrence, Mark Warschauer, Binbin Zheng, and Diana Mullins 9 Digital Literacy in Practice: Achieving a Cosmopolitan Orientation 131 Ann Mechem Ziergiebel 10 Research in Multiple texts and text Support 143 Cynthia Shanahan 11 Multiple Texts in Practice: Fostering Accessibility, Engagement, and Comprehension 163 Joanna Lieberman and Janet Looney 12 Research in Writing: The Rightful Place of Writing-to-Learn in Content Teaching 181 Vicki A. Jacobs 13 Writing in Practice: Strategies for Use Across the Disciplines 197 Carol Booth Olson and Catherine D’Aoust 14 Professional Learning as the Key to Linking Content and Literacy Instruction 215 Jacy Ippolito 15 Meeting the Challenge of the Common Core State Standards 235 Jacy Ippolito and Colleen Zaller Notes 251 Acknowledgments 275 About the Editors 277 About the Contributors 279 Index 285