Full Description
Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning. As the contributors demonstrate, an inquiry approach can significantly boost student achievement, understanding, and transfer of learning. The chapters in this collection present classroom-tested approaches, activities, and assignments that teachers can use right away, but that also serve as models for designing learning experiences that most engage and benefit learners. Focusing on issues that adolescents find consequential, the sample learning activities promote the development of complex literacy skills, engage students in evidence-based reasoning, and foster an environment of cooperation, collaboration, and respect for different points of view. Together, the contributions 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.
Contents
Foreword
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Boise State University
Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
Elizabeth A. Kahn, Andrew Bouque, Dawn Forde, Thomas M. McCann, and Carolyn C. Walter
Part I: An Invitation to Inquiry
Chapter 1- Inquiring into Inquiry in English Language Arts
Hugh Kesson, Michael W. Smith, and Jon-Philip Imbrenda
Chapter 2- Inquiry-Based Processes for Writing
Thomas M. McCann
Chapter 3- Inquiry and Literature: Beginning with Why?
Carolyn Calhoun Walter
Chapter 4- Inquiring in First-Year Composition
Shayne Dwyer and Faye Scott
Part II: The Practice of Inquiry
Chapter 5- Planning Inquiry-Based Learning
Elizabeth A. Kahn
Chapter 6- Managing Group Inquiry
Patricia Dalton and Suzanne Starnes
Chapter 7- Launching Independent Inquiries
Deborah Stern and Stacey Carlough
Chapter 8- Assessing the Impact of Inquiry
Andrew Bouque
Part III: Inquiry Beyond the ELA Classroom
Chapter 9- Investigating Text and Self: Inquiry, Literacy, and Social-Emotional Learning Gabrielle Caputo and Shannon McMullen
Chapter 10- Inquiry and Service Learning in Teacher Education
Peter Smagorinsky
Chapter 11- Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations: Valuing Inquiry to Navigate Controversy
Peter Anderson and Dawn Forde
Chapter 12- Learning with Tools of Digital Inquiry
Mary Rice
About the Editors
About the Contributors
