Is literacy enough? : pathways to academic success for adolescents

Summary: "While strong early literacy skills are important, they aren't enough to ensure a student's later reading and academic success. Four literacy experts investigate the reasons in this book - and demonstrate why schools need to go beyond K - 3 literacy to help adolescents reach their full potential. Following a group of children from low-income families from preschool through high school, the authors charted the students' outcomes using test data reflecting language and literacy skills; self-report data reflecting motivation and engagement in school; and interviews with students, teachers, and parents. Through the sobering discoveries made during this study, educators, administrators, researchers, and reading specialists will discover the critical influence of both protective factors and risk factors."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 1557669139 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1557669147 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781557669131 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781557669148 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xix, 153 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-148) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The ever-narrowing path to school success -- 2. Closing the literacy achievement gap and promoting reading for learning : two challenges -- 3. Early language and literacy skills and later reading comprehension : literacy predicts literacy -- 4. Continuities in literacy, discontinuities in outcomes : middle and high school -- 5. Motivational and scholastic resources that predict academic success -- 6. Different motivational characteristics of learners : the carrot or the stick? -- 7. Projections of triumph and frustration -- 8. Lessons learned and lessons needed : seeking the missing puzzle pieces.