Raise Your Voices: Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147584428X ISBN 13: 9781475844283

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2018

Synopsis

In a collection of chapters from high school teachers and university researchers, Raise Your Voices offers English language arts teachers “one-stop shopping” to learn how to foster dialogic classrooms and how to prompt, sustain, connect, and assess classroom discussions, especially discussions about issues that adolescents find consequential. The chapters explore both the basics for facilitating discussion to support literacy learning and the principles for assessing the progress and effect of discussion and for including all students in lively dialogue. Taken together, the entries in this book envision the English language arts classroom as a supportive environment for authentic inquiry and for the genuine democratic processes involved in grappling together with tough perennial and contemporary issues.

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About the Authors

Thomas M. McCann is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he contributes to the teacher licensure program. His books include Transforming Talk into Text (Teachers College Press), Raise Your Voices: Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning, Learning to Enjoy Literature (Rowman & Littlefield), and Teaching on Solid Ground, with John Knapp (Guilford Press).

Andrew Bouque teaches English at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. In his twenty-one years in public high schools, he has worked to build classroom communities for students to find, develop, and refine their spoken voices and craft arguments that matter.

Dawn Forde is a teacher at Adlai E. Stevenson High School and has been learning from her students for almost twenty years. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences, primarily focusing on inquiry and its effects on student engagement.

Elizabeth A. Kahn taught English language arts for 36 years and served as English department chair; she now teaches in the English teacher education program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. She has co-authored several books, including Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning (NCTE 2018), The Dynamics of Writing Instruction (Heinemann 2010), and Writing About Literature (NCTE 1984 and 2009, updated edition).

Carolyn C. Walter taught English students for thirty years at both public and private high schools and now supervises student teachers for Northern Illinois University. Ms. Walter is a regular presenter at national conferences and has co-authored Designing and Sequencing Pre-Writing Activities and Writing about Literature, and Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147584428X
• ISBN 13: 9781475844283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Thomas M. McCann, Andrew Bouque, Dawn Forde, Elizabeth A. Kahn