Is literacy enough? : pathways to academic success for adolescents - Snow, Catherine E. (Baltimore, Md. : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., 2007)
The ever-narrowing path to school success -- Closing the literacy achievement gap and promoting reading for learning : two challenges -- Early language and literacy skills and later -- Reading comprehension : literacy predicts literacy -- Continuities in literacy, discontinuities in outcomes : middle and high school -- Motivational and scholastic resources that predict academic success -- Different motivational characteristics in learners : the carrot or the stick? -- Projections of triumph and frustration -- Lessons learned and lessons needed : seeking the missing puzzle pieces.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Reading (Secondary) -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States -- Longitudinal studies