Literacy Through Literature: Motivating At‐risk Students to Read and Write

Critical Dialogue: A Literacy Curriculum for Students at Risk in the Middle Grades

“…Thus, students' growth in literacy depends on their learning to apply a wide range of intrapersonal knowledge to varied extrapersonal reading and writing assignments (Gentile & McMillan, 1990). When they fail to derive, interpret, and construct meaning through literacy instruction, their skills lapse, they cannot function as students, and they are at grave risk of dropping or being pushed out of school (Ralph, 1988).…”