Between the Lines

Michael Anthony has taught secondary English students, grades nine through twelve, for the last 20 years. He conceived and implemented a genre-based instructional English language arts curriculum, integrating independent readership and young adult (YA) literature. In 2006, he successfully reversed a ban on Adam Rapp’s YA novel The Buffalo Tree in the Muhlenberg School District, as featured in the NewYork Times. He has been a featured speaker at college and university symposiums on “Censorship in Schools” and has presented on adapting reading workshop strategies for high school students at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention. His research on the teen angst YA literature subgenre has been cited in The AlanReview. Joan F. Kaywell has served as Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida (USF) for nearly three decades. She was appointed the Director of the SunCoast Area Teacher Training & Education Research (SCATTER), USF’s COEDU’s Honors Program summer 2013. She donates her time extensively to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and its Florida affiliate (FCTE): She is Past President of NCTE’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN), completed two terms serving as ALAN’s Membership Secretary, and was the recipient of the 2012 Hipple Award for outstanding service. Kaywell is a Past-President of FCTE twice and served almost two decades on its Board of Directors. In 2012, FCTE created the “Joan F. Kaywell Books Save Lives Award” in her honor. Dr. Kaywell is published in several journals; regularly reviews YA novels, has edited two series of textbooks, and written one trade book. Kaywell fervently believes that teachers and authors are often the unsung heroes of children on the brink of self-destruction. By offering books to children to help them momentarily escape the pain of growing up, teachers offer teenagers a constructive way to survive the crisis, find hope, and know that they are not alone.

• Dedication Introduction: The War on Reading Organization Chapter One: Between the Lines: The Establishment of a New Paradigm Chapter Two:Getting the Between the Lines Routine Started Chapter Three:How Between the Lines Meets the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) while Making Students Better Readers and Writers Chapter Four:Correspondence, Reflection, and MetacognitionChapter Five:Why We Do It: Twenty (20) Strategies that Correlate with CCSS College and Career Readiness Anchor Reading Standards Chapter Six:Managing the Reading Volume: Ten Top Hints Chapter Seven:Managing the Writing Volume: Ten Top Hints Chapter Eight:Establishing a Classroom Library: Why and How Chapter Nine:Wading into the Water: An Afterword Appendices Appendix A: Reading Progress LogAppendix B: Between the Lines Rules and ProceduresAppendix C: Between the Lines Activity: Book Chat Check Appendix D: Between the Lines Activity: Pop Goes the Question Appendix E: Between the Lines Activity: Summary Slam Appendix F: Between the Lines Activity: Watch Your LanguageAppendix G: Between the Lines Activity: Like It/Don’t Like It Appendix H: Between the Lines: Novel Reading Survey Appendix I: Between the Lines Reflection Letter Rules and Starters Appendix J: Between the Lines: Metacognitive Letter Instructions Appendix K: Between the Lines: Status of the Class - Student’s Self CheckAppendix L: Between the Lines: Student’s Scoring RubricAppendix M: Between the Lines: Teacher’s Scoring RubricAppendix N: Between the Lines: Award-Winning Books to Recommend to Students Annotated Young Adult and Adult Books References About the Authors

Between the Lines by Michael Anthony and Joan F. Kaywell is frank teacher-to-teacher talk about how you can run a reading/writing workshop in a high school environment even when school administrators aren’t invested in 'low-brow' reading. This book is the pep talk you need if you want to steer your classroom towards workshop but are tied in by constraints.