AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.

Stuck in the Middle

This article tackles the tough topic of student motivation and illustrates three strategies that can help create a meaningful curriculum to engage middle-level learners.
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Teacher-Student Interactions

CLASS is an instrument which helps educators view classrooms through a common lens, providing support for improving the quality of teacher-student interactions and, ultimately, student learning.
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How Parents Can Support the Common Core Reading Standards

Get to know what the four main areas of the Common Core reading standards mean and simple things you can do at home to help your child build skills in these areas.
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Featured Booklists: Social Sciences

A committee of librarians selected these books to open doors on new worlds, exciting ideas, eccentric personalities, unfamiliar cultures, and distant time periods.
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Featured Strategy

Featured Strategy: Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)

The Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) is a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing. Students integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found in several sources. I-Charts can be used with the entire class, small groups, or individual work.
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Featured Resource

Digital Learning Resource Roundup

Dig into this rich resource library from Edutopia. Topics include flipped and blended classrooms, teaching with new media tools, coding across the curriculum, game-based learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and much more.
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Featured Glossary Term

Service Learning

Structured programs in which students participate in the civic and political life of their community, which enhances the students' academic success, social behaviors, leadership skills, and community awareness.
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Research & News

More Than Bang! Pow! Graphic Novels in the Classroom

"Why not use every effective teaching tool at our disposal?" asks Michael Cavna in the Washington Post. Set in the context of a young child being chided for reading a graphic novel in class, Cavna urges educators to get to know some terrific and award-winning graphic novels from 2013. Here you'll find 10 great titles that can find a place in your classroom. All your readers, but perhaps especially your reluctant ones, will thank you for it!