Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading. The author offers strategy learning guides, lesson examples, and planning templates for teachers.

Grades 6–12 teachers, reading specialists, and instructional coaches can use this book to:

• Employ research-based strategies to help students actively engage with informational texts
• Teach students to identify and assess integral arguments, perspectives, and rhetoric
• Challenge students to reconstruct what they learn from a reading in their own words
• Encourage students’ active participation in text-centered class discussions
• Increase students’ motivation and competence when approaching complex texts

Contents:

Part 1: The Case for the Deep Sense Approach

Chapter 1: Why and How Secondary Students Resist Reading Info-Texts

Chapter 2: A Strategic Approach to Improving Comprehension

Part 2: Teaching the Deep Sense Approach

Chapter 3: Helping Adolescents Regain Their Reading Confidence

Chapter 4: Strategy Instruction That Works

Chapter 5: Leading Text-Centered Discussions

Chapter 6: Reinforcing Strategies With Shared Info-Text Studies (SITS)

Part 3: The Deep Sense Approach Strategies

Chapter 7: Focus on Meaning Making

Chapter 8: Prepare to Read

Chapter 9: Read Actively

Chapter 10: Evaluate Arguments and Evidence

Chapter 11: Consolidate Learning

Appendix A

Appendix B

References and Resources

Index