Adolescent readers encounter increasingly complex, discipline-specific vocabulary as they move through the grades, and vocabulary knowledge is one of the strongest predictors of reading comprehension. Building word knowledge and teaching comprehension strategies that support meaning-making from text should be a consistent, explicit routine across every content-area classroom. The resources below support evidence-aligned vocabulary and comprehension instruction for students in grades 5–12.
Adolescent Literacy
Vocabulary and Comprehension
Keys to Literacy Library
Sixteen free webinars, blogs, and articles for grades 5-12, from sentence combining and text structure to executive function.
Syntax and WritingSentence-level instruction and writing strategies for older students, from the Syntax Project's scope and sequence to The Writing Revolution.