AdLit  Retrieved from http://www.adlit.org.  AdLit is a national multimedia project that offers a wide breadth of resources for parents and educators of struggling readers in grades four through twelve. The site includes teaching strategies, graphic organizers, suggested reading lists, and research articles about a variety of topics related to adolescent literacy.

Writing to Read: Evidence For How Writing Can Improve Reading. Carnegie    Corporation Time to Act Report. Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education. Retrieved from http://carnegie.org. 

Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools. Retrieved from http://all4ed.org.  A new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education that focuses on the importance of good writing skills to a student’s future success and offers new insights about techniques that will improve writing instruction for secondary students.