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.
Adequate Yearly Progress, Small Learning Communities, Explicit Instruction — do you know what these phrases mean? Find these and other commonly used terms related to reading, literacy, and reading instruction in our glossary.
A cooperative classroom learning strategy in which each member of a group leaves her home-base group to join another group with an expert in some other aspect of a topic.
"I am excited to find this site. I appreciate the differences in teaching literacy skill at elementary level and teaching literacy skills to pre-adolescents and adolescents. These resources will hit my upper ELL kids right where they are! Thanks."
- K. J.
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How young children learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.
AdLit.org is funded by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the author(s).
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