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Research I Recommend for Study
Drawn by Hand: Community College Students as Graphic Novelists, College English, September 2022
Living Legacy of Donald Murray by Tom Ramono, English Journal, January 2000
Engagement with Young Adult Literature: Outcomes and Processes by Gay Ivey & Peter Johnston, Reading Research Quarterly, 2013.
The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar by Michelle Navare Cleary, The Atlantic, Feb. 24, 2014
For the Love of Reading by Daniel Willingham, professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Virginia, March 7, 2018
“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
Access to Books, from Make Every Student Count: Family and Community Engagement 2013 Research Compendium, research presented by Lois Bridges, PhD.
Adolescent Readers in Middle School By Sheen Hervey Generation Ready, 2013
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
Six Literacy Experiences Children Should Have Every Day by Richard Allington and Rachael Gabriel in Educational Leadership, March 2012
What Kids Are Reading: The Book-Reading Habits of Students in American Schools by Renaissance Learning, Inc., 2012
PISA in Focus: Do students today read for pleasure? September 2011
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
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
To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, National Endowment for the Arts, 2007
Farewell to A Farewell to Arms: Deemphasizing the Whole-Class Novel by Douglas Fisher and Gay Ivey, March 2007
Reading for Pleasure: A research overview by Christina Clark and Kate Rumbold, National Literacy Trust, November 2006
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
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)
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
The Fragile Success of School Reform in the Bronx by Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 4/6/11
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
Collegiate Learning Assessment (undated)
81 Generalizations About Free Reading by Stephen Krashen
Adolescents' Engagement in Academic Literacy by John T. Guthrie, Allan Wigfield, and Susan Lutz Klauda (undated)
What I've Learned About Effective Reading Instruction by Richard Allington
Addressing Detroit’s Basic Skills Crisis, A report from The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund
Learning to Choose: The Hidden Art of the Enthusiastic Reader by Margaret Mackey