As an introduction and to set the context for the articles in the text, the editors have included three dimensions for reflection: health literacy to influence students' development of personal health and well-being; multiliteracy experiences where a student is engaged in learning through the activation, coordination, and utilization of multimodal processes and commercial literacy where commercial programs are used in the classroom and the energy required by educators to shape the programs to meet the instructional needs of students. The first section of the text provides articles on literacy and the adolescent learner. The second half of the text contains articles about teaching the adolescent learner through research-based instructional practices. Using picture books with older learners, considering adolescent boys' and girls' literacy needs, using popular culture and assessing adolescent literacy are a few of the topics of the articles.--Ministry of Education website.

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