Adolescent learners will engage in literacy learning if they understand its relevance to both academic pursuits and future success. Exploring the literacy skills that are embedded in the technology that saturates adolescents' lives helps to establish the relevance of literacy education. Educators who design lessons around collaboration, inquiry, choice, and authenticity increase the chances that students will judge the activity to be relevant and choose to engage. Additionally, explicit literacy instruction is essential to ensure that comprehension deepens as content becomes more complex. Those educators who emphasize the relevance of literacy skills provide adolescent learners with a solid foundation for future success.