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Book Edited by NJCU Professor Jill Lewis Published by Guilford Press

Reading Success for Struggling Adolescent Learners, a book co-edited by Dr. Jill Lewis, a professor of literacy education at New Jersey City University, and Dr. Susan Lenski, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Portland Sate University, has been published by Guilford Press.

Part of Guilford Press’s series, “Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy,” Reading Success for Struggling Adolescent Learners is a comprehensive volume that discusses factors that affect struggling readers in grades seven through 12 and provides research-based strategies for improving their reading and writing skills. Chapters written by leading authorities from throughout the United States examine why some adolescents have trouble achieving reading proficiency, describe schoolwide policies and programs that support literacy, and suggest age-appropriate classroom practices for promoting reading success.

Reading Success for Struggling Adolescent Learners features an introduction by Drs. Lewis and Lenski as well as four chapter categories: “Understanding Struggling Adolescent Readers,” “Organizing Classroom Contexts That Promote Literacy,” “Implementing Classroom Instruction for Struggling Adolescent Readers,” and “Developing Schoolwide Contexts to Support Achievement.”

Dr. Lewis also wrote the chapter, “But I’m Not Going to College!”: Developing Adolescents’ Literacy for the 21st-Century Workplace,” and co-wrote, with Dr. Avivah Dahbany, the chapter, “What Do We Know about the Adolescent Learner and What Does It Mean for Literacy Instruction?.”

A member of the NJCU faculty since 1973, Dr. Lewis has served as chair of the Department of Literacy Education and was a founder and trustee of the University Academy Charter High School.

News releases by Ellen Wayman-Gordon, and Kelly Resch, Office of Public Information.