Designed specifically for high-school teachers and administrators, this long-awaited text presents, in a succint and practical way, the issues and trends relative to improved literacy learning in our nation's high schools.

This text is an invaluable resource packed with numerous research-based, classroom-tested learning strategies to improve reading in the content areas. A special emphasis is placed on the needs of the struggling reader. The text concludes with a description of how to develop a literacy program and plan for a high school or district and presents several exemplary models. This text is the perfect complement to Reading and the Middle School, 2/e, also published by Irvin.