Adolescent Literacy Targeted with "Critical Literacy" Series: Making Inferences and Figurative Language
Summary
The Critical Literacy series meets this challenge with resources that provide struggling readers with direct, explicit instruction and guidance.Authored by noted curriculum specialist Susan Brooks-Young, each Critical Literacy book contains 20 reading, vocabulary, and writing lessons organized around core content areas.Critical Literacy: Making Inferences • Helps students comprehend, analyze, and connect the ideas behind the words • Strengthens ability to make evidence-based guesses, recall relevant details, and analyze text and non-textual clues Critical Literacy: Figurative Language • Helps students understand, analyze, and apply figurative language • Focuses on alliteration, analogy, hyperbole, idioms, metaphors, paradox, similes, and other figures of speech The Critical Literacy series recognizes that there are many ways to strengthen literacy, including vocabulary acquisition, metacognition, writing, and reading comprehension, to name just a few.Founded 80 years ago, Walch Education’s accessible and affordable products are developed by experts and an in-house educational team, in partnership with leading schools and districts nationwide.### Portland, ME, January 20, 2008 --( PR.com )-- The latest release by Walch Education is a two-book series that gets to the roots of adolescent literacy issues.