Department of Education, 2013 - 79 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-7307-4523-5.
This book highlights the fact that literacy underpins all school learning. It is the vehicle for understanding the specialised language, concepts and skills of each learning area. When students' literacy skills are improved, they are able to process information more effectively, and they have greater understandings about subject-specific content. Their learning outcomes are therefore more likely to improve.
Increasingly, teachers are required to cater for wide ranges of ability in their classrooms. When they are familiar with the purposes and benefits of different strategies, they are better equipped to cater for the diversity of needs associated with adolescent learners.
Students also need to become adept at selecting and applying independently a range of strategies in different contexts, for different purposes. They are then able to complete effectively the many complex tasks that they will encounter throughout their school years.
This text is intended as a practical resource that will provide a point of reference for teachers striving to cater for the learning needs of adolescent students.
