Inspiring Lifelong Readers: Using Inquiry to Engage Learners in Grades 6–12 (Practical, evidence-based strategies to advance literacy learning and student engagement) - Softcover

Jennifer McCarty Plucker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949539873 ISBN 13: 9781949539875

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2023

Synopsis

Research shows that secondary students need daily opportunities to engage in reading, writing, and communicating to improve reading success. Inspiring Lifelong Readers equips teachers with literacy strategies that achieve lasting results. Grounded in practices that promote adolescent literacy, inquiry, motivation, inspiration, and engagement, this book offers tried-and-true, evidence-based strategies that support students in becoming competent, confident, and engaged readers.

This book will help grades 6–12 teachers and administrators:

• Access practical strategies and reproducible tools to support literacy instruction
• Implement the inquiry approach and workshop framework to effectively advance the literacy skills of all readers
• Curate a classroom library of diverse, inclusive books and other texts that pique students’ interests
• Celebrate student accomplishments by rewarding met goals and continued progress
• Understand the physical and social-emotional classroom environments that create the ideal conditions for literacy engagement

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building a Community of Readers, Writers, Communicators, and Thinkers
Chapter 2: Immersing Students in Rich, Diverse Texts
Chapter 3: Using Inquiry for English Language Arts and Literacy
Chapter 4: Structuring Class Time for Authentic Literacy Engagement
Chapter 5: Creating Conditions for Student Engagement
Chapter 6: Celebrating Literacy Achievements
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer McCarty Plucker, EdD, is the director of learning and development and a literacy consultant at Mackin Educational Resources in Burnsville, Minnesota.
Dr. Plucker has spent more than twenty years in public education as an English teacher, reading specialist, speech coach, teaching and learning specialist, and district administrator. Her doctoral research focused on student engagement and motivation in literacy. Her current work with educators is grounded in an inquiry approach that puts students in the driver’s seat of their learning. She supports educators in implementing inquiry in the classroom, redesigning English language arts (ELA) curriculum to support student ownership, implementing practices to motivate and engage readers, developing secondary literacy intervention programs, and supporting school communities in developing a culture of literacy. Dr. Plucker has served as an adjunct instructor for Hamline University in Saint Paul; Augsburg College in Minneapolis; and Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota. Dr. Plucker also currently serves on the Eastview Community Foundation Board and supports young people as a leadership development manager for Chick-fil-A Apple Valley.
Dr. Plucker is a past president for the Minnesota Reading Association, where she was recognized as a celebrated literacy leader. The literacy intervention program Dr. Plucker implemented for ninth graders at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota, was recognized by the International Literacy Association. Dr. Plucker was also awarded an Alumni Success Award from Argosy University for her doctoral research and leadership in literacy. Dr. Plucker highlighted her literacy intervention for adolescents in an article in ASCD’s Educational Leadership called “Baiting the Reading Hook” (October 2010).
Dr. Plucker holds a bachelor’s degree in secondary English and speech and theatre education from Minnesota State University, Moorhead; a master’s degree in educational leadership from Saint Mary’s University; a K–12 reading license from Hamline University; and a K–12 administrative license from Saint Thomas University. She received her doctorate in educational leadership with a focus on adolescent literacy from Argosy University, Twin Cities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949539873
• ISBN 13: 9781949539875
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 208