Using paired fiction and nonfiction texts can help students gain background knowledge to better understand stories while also making the nonfiction more engaging. These paired texts foster different literacy skills like note-taking, summarizing, and visualization. Creative lessons that have students apply skills to produce a final product support higher-order thinking instead of just repetition. These lessons give students a fuller understanding through hands-on experience. New literacy strategies help adolescents by teaching them to understand different text types, take important notes, and gradually work independently through practice and confidence-building.