Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction

Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction
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Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction
Hinchman and Sheridan-Thomas (2014), provide a comprehensive guide on how to provide an effective literacy instruction approach to adolescent students. Chapter 9 focuses on expanding adolescent writing. It develops an integrated analysis on the requirements of writing and building writing on existing experience.
Highlight key vocabulary words/phrases. The presenter should define 3-5 of these and provide the class opportunity to apply the words/phrases in a brief exercise.
There are several key vocabulary phrases from chapter 9, for example,
1 Writing to think is an important phrase that focuses on creativity and critical thinking. Writing to think is a concept that help educators to enhance the writing capabilities amongst the students. Thus, writing to think is a framework for writing and communication (p. 161).
2 Discourse study is the ability to analyze the language used in the context/readings effectively. The language should be guided by the background story and develop from students existing writing experience (p. 160).
3 Literacy instruction entails incorporating eleme...