Decoding 6-12 1E

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 979-8-3488-7027-0
Verlag: Sage Publications - IPS UK

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

Reihe: Corwin Press

"That's an elementary problem" is no longer an answer.

Every middle and high school has them: students who can decode the words but not navigate the dense sentences, specialized vocabulary, and multi-source arguments of secondary coursework. Their struggles are often dismissed as unfinished elementary business. Yet secondary literacy requires its own instruction, and many students have never received explicit instruction in those demands.

Decoding to Discourse, 6–12 is an MTSS playbook for closing that gap. Organized around the seven interconnected domains of academic vocabulary, sentence craft, text structure, evidence and argument, synthesis, writing process, and metacognition, it offers 154 classroom-ready strategies for teachers, coaches, and interventionists. Practitioner-scholar Dr. Anthony Fitzpatrick helps educators

- Pinpoint why adolescent readers struggle, from syntax and morphology to comprehension

- Use four Literacy Bridges to connect foundational skills to disciplinary literacy

- Move students from Surface to Deep to Transfer learning with tiered strategies

- Build a shared literacy vocabulary across grade levels and departments

- Teach syntax, evidence use, argument, and synthesis in any content area

A companion to the K–5 volume that also stands on its own, Decoding to Discourse, 6–12 helps middle and secondary educators teach students to read complex texts, write with precision, and use evidence to reason across subjects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzpatrick, Anthony J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction
DOMAIN 1 Academic Language and Vocabulary
Pillar 1.1 — Vocabulary
Pillar 1.2 — Morphology
Pillar 1.3 — Knowledge Building and Schema Development
Pillar 1.4 — Oral Language and Academic Discourse
Pillar 1.5 — Fluency and Prosody
DOMAIN 2 Sentence and Paragraph Craft
Pillar 2.1 — Syntax and Sentence Control
Pillar 2.2 — Appositives, Clauses, and Concision
Pillar 2.3 — Paragraph Craft and Cohesion
DOMAIN 3 Text Structure and Comprehension
Pillar 3.1 — Literary and Narrative Comprehension
Pillar 3.2 — Information and Argumentative Comprehension
DOMAIN 4 Evidence and Argument
Pillar 4.1 — Evidence Integration and Commentary
Pillar 4.2 — Argument, Counterclaim, and Logic
DOMAIN 5 Synthesis and Multi-text Literacy
Pillar 5.1 — Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Citation
Pillar 5.2 — Synthesis and Multi-text Writing
DOMAIN 6 Writing Process and Conventions
Pillar 6.1 — Planning, Outlining, and Argument Structure
Pillar 6.2 — Revision, Audience, and Feedback
Pillar 6.3 — Research and Publication
Pillar 6.4 — Grammar, Syntax, and Style
DOMAIN 7 Metacognition and Bridges
Pillar 7.1 — Metacognitive and Higher-order Thinking
Pillar 7.2 — Morphology–Syntax–Comprehension Bridge
Pillar 7.3 — Syntax–Fluency for Comprehension Bridge
Pillar 7.4 — Metacognition and Transfer Bridge
The Continuum

Über Autor(innen)

Fitzpatrick, Anthony J.
Anthony J. Fitzpatrick, Ed.D., began his career as a public school educator and has spent more than twenty-five years in New Jersey schools since. He has served as an elementary principal and as Director of Innovation for the State of New Jersey, and he currently serves as Assistant Superintendent for two districts: Delsea Regional School District, serving grades 7–12, and Elk Township School District, serving grades PK–6. That vantage point — prekindergarten through graduation, in the same week — is the reason Decoding to Discourse exists in two volumes rather than one.

He is the architect of the Five Engines of Literacy, the framework at the center of this series, which organizes reading and writing instruction around knowledge, word, sentence, structure, and argument, with metacognition and transfer running through all five. The framework was built and refined in the classrooms and PLCs of the districts he leads, not in a laboratory.

Fitzpatrick serves as School Leadership Advisor for Drexel University's ALLIED Hub, where his work sits at the intersection of literacy research, policy, and practice. He also teaches in educational leadership at the doctoral level, where he chairs dissertations for practitioner-scholars.

He is also the author of The Evolving Science of Reading. Learn more at anthonyfitzpatrick.com.