Adolescent Literacy: Looking Back and Moving Forward in the Global Flow

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An Exploration of Teacher Preparation Practices with Foundational Knowledge of Literacy

“…Unfortunately, research has highlighted deficiencies in the professional knowledge base of in-service teachers that may influence student academic performance (Brindle et al, 2016;Spear-Swerling & Cheesman, 2012). With this in mind, it is imperative that teacher preparation programs prepare preservice teachers to sufficiently address foundational knowledge of literacy during instruction within their respective grade-level bands (Bean & Dunkerly, 2012;Duke & Block, 2012;Pomerantz & Condi, 2017). As noted in Standards 2017, foundational knowledge includes components of literacy-language, listening, reading, speaking, viewing, visually representing, and writing-and focus upon any interdisciplinary and discipline-specific literacy processes appropriate for each grade-level band (ILA, 2018).…”