Closing the Literacy Gap

2. Building Foundational Skills to Accelerate Progress

3. Instruction in Foundational Skills and Understandings

4. Boosting Students’ Basic Reading Levels

5. Using Extensive Independent Reading to Accelerate Literacy

6. Using the Magic of Periodicals to Accelerate Progress

7. Providing Extra Time

8. Using Tutoring to Accelerate Progress

9. Using Comprehension Strategies and Graphic Organizers to Accelerate and Deepen Learning

10. Accelerating Vocabulary Growth

11. Using Writing to Close the Gap

12. Helping Those Most Affected by the Literacy Gap

13. Taking Steps to Accelerate Literacy Progress and Close the Gap

References

Children’s Literature

Index