Teacher | Author | Advocate
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Research I Recommend for Study
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Drawn by Hand: Community College Students as Graphic Novelists, College English, September 2022
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Living Legacy of Donald Murray by Tom Ramono, English Journal, January 2000
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Engagement with Young Adult Literature: Outcomes and Processes by Gay Ivey & Peter Johnston, Reading Research Quarterly, 2013.
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The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar by Michelle Navare Cleary, The Atlantic, Feb. 24, 2014
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For the Love of Reading by Daniel Willingham, professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Virginia, March 7, 2018
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“Developing Agency from Community, East Side Community School, New York, NY.” Learning by Heart: Six American High Schools Where Social and Emotional Learning Are Core. Providence, Rhode Island: What Kids Can Do By Kathleen Cushman, 2013
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Access to Books, from Make Every Student Count: Family and Community Engagement 2013 Research Compendium, research presented by Lois Bridges, PhD.
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Adolescent Readers in Middle School By Sheen Hervey Generation Ready, 2013
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Federal Mandates on Local Education: Costs and Consequences – Yes, it’s a Race, but is it in the Right Direction? Published by Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach, State University of New York at New Paltz, Fall 2012
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Six Literacy Experiences Children Should Have Every Day by Richard Allington and Rachael Gabriel in Educational Leadership, March 2012
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What Kids Are Reading: The Book-Reading Habits of Students in American Schools by Renaissance Learning, Inc., 2012
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PISA in Focus: Do students today read for pleasure? September 2011
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How the Accelerated Reader program can become counterproductive for high school students by Gail Thompson, Marga Madhuri, Deborah Taylor, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literary, April 2008
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Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools, A Report from Carnegie Corporation of New York By Steve Graham and Dolores Perin, 2007
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To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, National Endowment for the Arts, 2007
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Farewell to A Farewell to Arms: Deemphasizing the Whole-Class Novel by Douglas Fisher and Gay Ivey, March 2007
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Reading for Pleasure: A research overview by Christina Clark and Kate Rumbold, National Literacy Trust, November 2006
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Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school by Richard C. Anderson, Paul T. Wilson and Linda G. Fielding, Reading Research Quarterly, Summer 1988
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Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age, published by The College Board, Phi Delta Kappa International and The National Writing Project (undated)
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Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy, Grades 3–12 by David Coleman and Susan Pimentel, June 2011
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The Fragile Success of School Reform in the Bronx by Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 4/6/11
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Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading, A Report from Carnegie Corporation of New York By Steve Graham and Michael Hebert, 2010
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Collegiate Learning Assessment (undated)
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81 Generalizations About Free Reading by Stephen Krashen
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Adolescents' Engagement in Academic Literacy by John T. Guthrie, Allan Wigfield, and Susan Lutz Klauda (undated)
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What I've Learned About Effective Reading Instruction by Richard Allington
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Addressing Detroit’s Basic Skills Crisis, A report from The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund
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Learning to Choose: The Hidden Art of the Enthusiastic Reader by Margaret Mackey