Joan F. Kaywell

Michael Anthony

Michael Anthony, 20-year reading workshop practitioner at the secondary level, and Joan Kaywell, acclaimed author and advocate for young adult literature in learning, present Between the Lines, a creative paradigm shift for the English Language Arts workshop classroom. In contrast to the traditional sustained silent reading and individual conferencing model, an impractical commitment for most teachers, BtL invites collaborative engagement and active inquiry among students as well as on-demand writing and integrated YA literature, all designed to support existing middle and secondary level ELA classroom curriculum instruction and national academic learning standards while empowering English educators toward improved student literacy achievement and the creation of lifelong readers. The classroom activities, with student-friendly names like Book Chat Check and Pop Goes the Question, promote animated discussions in social learning contexts and produce writings supported by textual evidence from student selected texts. Clear step by step directions for facilitation and authentic models of resulting student writing are shared along with a standards-based lesson plan suitable for grades 6-12. Ongoing teacher/student journal conversations validate independent reader thought processes and provoke differentiated learning experiences. The book includes Common Core State Standards-based strategies for responding to students meaningfully and for inviting extensions beyond the book, motivating increasingly complex and connective writings. Sample dialogue journal entries are shared along with insightful commentary and practical analysis. Everything needed for implementing Between the Lines is contained within these pages, including a user friendly appendix filled with fully reproduceable classroom workshop materials, tips for reducing the teacher reading and writing loads, and suggestions for building an enviable classroom library stocked with award-winning adolescent literature.

Actively Engaging Readers in the English Classroom

Between the Lines

Provides guidance on helping teenagers understand themselves through the examination and analysis of characters in young adult literature, with chapters addressing a variety of specific family problems.

Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Family Issues

Suggests ways in which teachers can employ popular young adult literature to aid in teaching literary classics to adolescents.

Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics

Offers statistics, case studies and reseach findings on emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of teenagers and provides literary and professional perspectives for each selected work of fiction, along with applications for using the stories in a hypothetical therapy setting.

Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Abuse Issues

Paula Greathouse

Brooke Eisenbach

This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including young adult (YA) literature in science and math classes in order to promote literacy development while learning content.

Science and Math

Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Content Areas

Between the Lines invites collaborative engagement and active inquiry among students as well as on-demand writing and integrated YA literature, all designed to support existing middle and secondary level ELA classroom curriculum instruction.

This text offers 6th - 12th grade ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom.

Joan F. Kaywell

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