Increasing Student Success

These factors positively affect students’ success in literacy:

• Regular opportunities to read and respond in writing to literature, both fiction and nonfiction;
• Many opportunities for students to explore independent reading;
• Rich writing experiences;
• The opportunity for students to use writing as a tool for learning in all subject areas;
• Rich and varied opportunities for vocabulary development;
• Links between student background knowledge and new content presented in text;

(Source: Alaska English/Language Arts Framework, 1996)