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Amy Stornaiuolo; Clara Abbott; Kathy Walsh – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
This discussion introduces a heuristic to guide writing instruction with adolescents and young adults. Our framework, called "Open World Writing," consists of six writing territories (vision, material, design, voice, flow, polish) that provide focus and clarity for writing and educators working across academic and creative writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Heuristics, Adolescents
George E. Newell; Meghan Dougherty Kuehnle; Kevin Fulton; Tzu-Jung Lin – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Given the complexity of dialogic argumentative writing and the requisite instruction needed to support student writers, we describe the instructional practices of an English language arts teacher and her culturally and linguistically diverse classroom of 10th graders' writing during key moments in two instructional units during school year…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Student Diversity
Beck, Sarah W.; Jones, Karis; Storm, Scott; Smith, Holly – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
With dialogic writing assessment, teachers can scaffold students' writing processes in ways that are flexible and responsive to students' individual needs. Examples of teachers using this conference-based method of classroom writing assessment illustrate how to practice assessment that is dynamic and relational rather than static and standardized,…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Processes, Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation
Early, Jessica Singer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
This article shares a study of an interview/writing project for adolescent girls, which was a component of the Girls Writing Science Project at a diverse urban high school in the Southwestern United States. The group of high school girls planned, initiated, conducted, and wrote interview profiles of women scientists from their local community.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Writing (Composition), Females, Urban Schools
Chisholm, James S.; Shelton, Ashley L.; Sheffield, Caroline C. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
Although the popularity and use of graphic novels in literacy instruction has increased in the last decade, few sustained analyses have examined adolescents' reading processes with informational texts in social studies classrooms. Recent research that has foregrounded visual, emotional, and embodied textual responses situates this qualitative…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Literacy Education, Adolescents
Batchelor, Katherine E.; King, April – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
This article shares two National Writing Project Teacher Consultants' interest in examining student engagement in writing flash fiction using mentor texts. Our two-week unit centered on two high school freshmen classes (one class identified as "at-risk" and another class identified as "college prep"), and we found the use…
Descriptors: Consultants, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Learner Engagement
Muhammad, Gholnecsar E. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
Identity and literacy development are two critical processes shaping the life trajectories of adolescents. Identity development in particular can present unique issues for Black adolescent girls, who are positioned in ways to negotiate their identity(ies) when presented with hegemonic language and representations of what is beauty and what is…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Literacy, Classrooms
Pytash, Kristine E. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
The field of content area literacy instruction is shifting from a general understanding of literacy towards disciplinary literacy. Much of the work in the field of disciplinary literacy has focused on reading, while writing has often been overlooked. This article summarizes the findings of a qualitative case study of two preservice teachers as…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education, Content Area Reading
Olson, Carol Booth; Land, Robert; Anselmi, Thelma; AuBuchon, Charlie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Members of a site of the California Writing Project conducted the study in this article in partnership with a large, urban, low-SES school district where 93% of the students speak English as a second language and 69% are designated Limited English Proficient. Over an eight-year period, a relatively stable group of 55 secondary teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Essays, Limited English Speaking