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Bridging the Literacy Achievement Gap Grades 4-12reviewed by Betsy MacLeod - 2005 Title: Bridging the Literacy Achievement Gap Grades 4-12 Author(s): Dorothy S. Strickland and Donna E. Alvermann (Editors)
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807744867, Pages: 294, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com “We like to think of adolescents as knowing
things that have to do with their particular life experiences and
the particular places they occupy both in and out of school in a
quickly changing world.”
(Strickland & Alvermann, 2004, p.2)
This definition of adolescence provides a key foundational
concept for the edited book, Bridging the literacy achievement
gap grades 4-12. Editors Dorothy S. Strickland and Donna E.
Alvermann believe that thinking of adolescents as merely
“pre-adults” in the 10-18 year old age range does not
adequately represent their multi-faceted identities. And, while
school literacy remains an important part of their lives, youth
culture and its multiple literacies has a tremendous impact on the
literacy learning of these young people. They argue that the push
to raise achievement has resulted in the alienation of aliterate
and struggling readers when the traditional school curriculum
reflects only academic literacy and does not use the everyday
literacies of students as a bridge to academic tasks. They also
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