This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. Descriptions of each component of high literacy (reading, writing, dialogic engagement, and epistemic cognition in literary reasoning) and how they relate to the others are followed by inspirational illustrations of high literacy instruction in practice.

Foreword, Judith A. Langer Acknowledgments and Dedication Introduction, Marc Nachowitz and Kristen C. Wilcox Part 1: Framing High Literacy Chapter 1: Conceptualizing High Literacy: A Framework for Research and Practice, Marc Nachowitz and Kristen C. Wilcox Chapter 2: College and Career Readiness Standards and High Literacy, Kristen C. Wilcox, Jill V. Jeffery, and Fang Yu Part 2: Components of High Literacy Chapter 3: Dialogically Organized Instruction: Encouraging Courageous Voices in Polarizing Times, Janet I. Angelis, Kelly Millet, and Eija Rougle Chapter 4: Dialogic Literary Argumentation as High Literacy in English Language Arts Classrooms, George E. Newell, Theresa Thanos, and Min-Young Kim Chapter 5: Attending to Readers’ Identities, Positions, and Social Contexts: An Argument for Disciplinary Literacy in English Language Arts, Julie E. Learned, Mary Jo Morgan, and Laura Dacus Chapter 6: A Design Architecture for Engaging Middle and High School Students in Epistemic Practices of Literary Interpretation, Sarah Levine, Allison H. Hall, Susan R. Goldman, and Carol D. Lee Part 3: Curriculum and Instruction for High Literacy Chapter 7: Digitally-Mediated Dialogic Engagement, Marc Nachowitz Chapter 8: The Potential of Using a Cognitive Strategies Approach to Enhancing the High Literacy of Secondary English Learners, Carol Booth Olson, Lauren Godfrey, Rachel Stumpf, and Huy Q. Chung Chapter 9: Resisting the “Más o Menos” Mindset: Design-Based Research to Boost Latinx Success in Advanced Coursework through Dialogically Organized Instruction, Ryan McCarty, Tim Pappageorge, and Claudia Rueda-Alvarez Chapter 10: Enacting High Literacy Practices in the Classroom: Considerations for Preservice Teachers, Kristine E. Pytash, Rhonda Hylton, and Elizabeth Testa Chapter 11: Conclusion About the Authors

Literacy is not a unitary skill, but one that involves using language and reasoning strategically for many different purposes in different situations and communities. It is essential that students in secondary schools become adept at doing so. This edited volume makes a clear and cogent case for why this is so critical and, even more importantly, provides useful and powerful examples of how to make “high literacy” a reality.