literacy

Presents a model of literacy designed to address the needs of students in an uncertain twenty-first century future, offering advice on how to adapt classrooms, teaching practices, and curriculums.

Presents a guide to help school leaders to improve literacy learning, and features the establishment of coaches and mentors to encourage cooperative learning approaches, demonstrate a commitment to literacy, and introduce various ways to assess and evaluate student progress, and programs to improve student performance.

Sweetness, one of eight orphans living with a man who is an unconventional housekeeper, learns to read, and writes an important letter to improve their situation.

Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old girl who is pregnant with her second child by her father, is pushed by her courageous African-American teacher to learn to read, and discovers the truth about herself and her life.

At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.

Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.

In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.