Reading and Writing
Strategies for the Secondary
ENGLISH
Classroom in a PLC at Work®
Daniel M. Argentar
Katherine A. N. Gillies
Maureen M. Rubenstein
Brian R. Wise
EDITED BY
Mark Onuscheck
Jeanne Spiller
Copyright © 2020 by Solution Tree Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Argentar, Daniel M., 1970- author. | Gillies, Katherine A. N., author. | Rubenstein, Maureen M., author. | Wise, Brian R., author. | Onuscheck, Mark, series editor. | Spiller, Jeanne, series editor.
Title: Reading and writing strategies for the secondary English classroom in a PLC at work / by Daniel M. Argentar, Katherine A.N. Gillies, Maureen M. Rubenstein, Brian R. Wise ; Mark Onuscheck (Series Editor) Jeanne Spiller (Series Editor).
Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, 2020. | Series: Every teacher is a literacy teacher | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019024121 (print) | LCCN 2019024122 (ebook) | ISBN 9781947604971 (paperback) | ISBN 9781947604988 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Language arts (Middle school) | Reading (Middle school) | Writing--Study and teaching (Middle school) | English language--Study and teaching (Middle school)
Classification: LCC LB1631 .A658 2020 (print) | LCC LB1631 (ebook) | DDC 428.0071/2--dc23
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to our significant others and families for supporting us through the process of writing this book. This book wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t have their continued support and encouragement. Thank you to Brandi, Ami, Nadav, and Alon Argentar; Nick, Cole, and Chase Gillies; Ryan, Camilla, and Kallie Rubenstein; and Erin, Colin, and Julianne Wise.
We are indebted to all of the mentors, teachers, and students who have shaped our thinking throughout our teaching careers. In particular, we are grateful for the partnership and collaborations we have enjoyed with the Adlai E. Stevenson High School communication arts department and D219 Niles Township High Schools. It is their commitment to literacy within our professional learning community that is the foundation for adapting and creating many of the strategies in this book.
Thanks go out to Adlai E. Stevenson High School communication arts director Doug Lillydahl and teachers Christina Anker, Jim Barnabee, Nicole Fuller, Martha Keller, Christy Koulouris, Kim Musolf, Mark Patton, Kirsten Voelker, Bob Zagorski, Edgar Aguirre, Dean Bradshaw, Jacquie Cullen, Miriam Fisch, Joe Flanagan, Dave Handelman, Nicole Smith, Liz Kenney, Matt Lockowitz, Melissa Mack, Noel Johnston, and Chip Tompson. Your passion, expertise, inspiration, and support have been invaluable.
Thank you to Niles North High School’s many committed literacy teams. It has been a pleasure working through the many challenges that are a part of this committed work. Kerry Daley, Courtney Hanson, Stephanie Salem, Mary Ellen Guercio, Ashley Amelianovich, Jessica Ralfs, Megan Rogers-Schultz, and Lisa Pak, your commitment and dedication to helping our students improve their literacy skills is admirable, and we thank you for helping us learn and grow as we have worked and reflected together so closely over the years.
Thank you to D219 Niles Township High Schools’ literacy coaches and specialists Stephanie Iafrate, Ellen Foley, Christine Mbah, and Mary Richards. Your commitment to fostering a culture of literacy at D219 has tremendously impacted this important body of work.
We also thank the literacy specialists, coaches, and teachers from Downers Grove North High School and the Chicago Area Literacy Leaders (CALL) group for sharing their expertise and inspiring the important literacy work and collaborations we engage in daily.
Thank you to the administrative leaders at Adlai E. Stevenson High School and Niles North High School for their encouragement and support. By prioritizing literacy in these schools, they have allowed our work to grow and inspire our school communities.
Finally, a very special thanks goes out to Mark Onuscheck, director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, whose compassion, humor, inspiration, guidance, and friendship motivate and inspire us regularly. Without his steady leadership, there would be no book to write.
Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:
| Deb Bamforth Educational Consultant East Hampstead, New Hampshire Linda Bowgren Literacy Specialist andConsultant, Presenter, and AuthorEndicott, New York | Kim Clawson English Teacher Red Bluff High School Red Bluff, California Amanda Pfeiffer English Teacher James Bowie High School Austin, Texas |
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