Adventures in Literacy Land: High School

Showing posts with label High School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label High School. Show all posts

Top 10 Literacy Tips for Teens

For many teens, reading is something done in elementary school. Why?  This post explores where we've gone wrong and what we can do to encourage reading in middle school and high school.

If you have lived with a teen recently or are beginning your career in middle or high school, then chances are these kids look familiar to you. Perhaps you've noticed that teens are very tech savvy often listening to music while they're working on a paper for English, sending messages to friends through Snapchat, and checking the latest game scores on ESPN.  Yes, our teens are multi-taskers to the extreme, and if you are teaching them, then chances are you've become pretty tech savvy yourself and observed these and many other teen behaviors. 

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