Keywords

literacy intervention, struggling students, secondary English instruction

Abstract

By mid-January, Leah (all names are pseudonyms), a first-year high school English teacher, recognized the need to provide more support for students struggling to meet state reading and writing standards. In spite of her efforts to support students’ literacy development by working from a dialogical stance that brings English content into dialogue with students’ lives (Fecho, 2011), some of her students were still not passing the statewide assessments. Leah shared her concerns with a veteran teacher who told her that he employed a remediation practice common at their school, which required students earning Ds or Fs to participate in additional instruction during the 20-minute flextime before lunch.

Original Publication Citation

"Embracing Wobble: Exploring Novice Teachers’ Efforts to Enact Dialogic Literacy Instruction.” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 63.3 (2019): 289-297. (with Trevor Stewart, Bob Fecho and Todd Hawley)

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2019

Publisher

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

English

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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