ScholarWorks@GVSU

Back to the Future: Looking at Nostalgic Practices to Conceptualize a More Inclusive Literacy Future (Part 1), Rebecca Witte, Darreth Rice
Michigan Reading Journal

Awareness & Access Matter: Making Professional Associations Available to Support Literacy Teachers’ Ongoing PL, Kathleen S. Howe, Suzanne M. Tiemann
Michigan Reading Journal

Prioritizing Social Emotional Learning with Interactive Read Alouds, Lindsay Stoetzel, Kelly Vigants
Michigan Reading Journal

Building a Beloved Community of Literacy in Professional Spaces, Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle, Jennifer L. Vanderground
Michigan Reading Journal

Literacy Across the Disciplines: A Way to Re-Engage Secondary Students, Jenelle Williams
Michigan Reading Journal

Moving Secondary Students from Foundational Literacy to Critical Literacy, Devan Rhea Bridget
Culminating Experience Projects

Strategic Morphology Interventions for Vocabulary Knowledge in Reading Comprehension, Danielle Marie Sharpe
Culminating Experience Projects

Modern vs. Traditional: Comparing Reading-Level and Strategy-Based Small Groups in Primary Grades, Abigail Tosch, Jenna Andriakos
Michigan Reading Journal

Toward a Theory of an Integrated Theoretical Approach of Literacy for Black Boys, Aaron M. Johnson
Michigan Reading Journal

Leveraging Student Voice and Technology within an 8th-Grade Literacy Community, Shavonne M. Jacobson
Michigan Reading Journal

Restructuring a Developmental ESL Course at an Urban Community College: Asking the Right Questions, Deniz Gokcora, Raymond Oenbring
Michigan Reading Journal

The “Reading Wars” are Back: What are the Implications for Adolescent Literacy?, Jenelle Williams
Michigan Reading Journal

Implementing Successful Foundational Reading Intervention: Resources for Upper Elementary Teachers, Colleen Myers
Culminating Experience Projects

A Collection of Middle Level Reading Interventions Categorized Based on Specific Criteria, Claire E. Alexander
Culminating Experience Projects

Fostering Reading for Enjoyment in Upper Elementary Students By Developing Connections to Reading and Increasing Self-Efficacy, Patrick Ritt
Culminating Experience Projects

Grammar Instruction Embedded Within Writing Instruction in the Secondary ELA Classroom, Erika Scheu-Millek
Culminating Experience Projects

Using Way-In and Stay-In Scientific Picturebooks To Learn About Science and Scientists, William P. Bintz
Michigan Reading Journal

STEAM Pride: Biographies & Autobiographies Written and/or Illustrated by Black Americans, Jonella Mongo Ph.D.
Michigan Reading Journal

Great Lakes Great Books: Making Classroom Connections, Lynette Suckow
Michigan Reading Journal

Eliminating the Gap: Proposed Implementation Methodology for Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Professional Development, Amanda May Brunette
Culminating Experience Projects

Narrowing the Achievement Gap by Increasing Student Opportunities in an Outdoor Project-Based Learning Environment, Britney Christensen
Culminating Experience Projects

Why Not Sign? Classrooms as Sites of d/Deaf and Multilingual Literacy Development, Dawnavyn James, Brianne R. Pitts
Michigan Reading Journal

Connecting Dots: Using Learner Self-Narratives to Address the Disconnect between the Texts and English Learners' Prior Experience, Rui Niu-Cooper
Michigan Reading Journal

Reading Coaches for a 40 Book Challenge: Creating an Online Reading Community to Support Sixth Graders’ Independent Reading, Amy Carpenter Ford, Kayla Szymanski, Isabel Slate, Rachel Derusha
Michigan Reading Journal

Centering Community in Disciplinary Literacy Implementation: One District’s Story, Jenelle Williams, Stacie Angel, Jennifer Wilcox, Angela Church
Michigan Reading Journal

Pierce’s “Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom”, Troy Hicks
Michigan Reading Journal

Staying “Above the Fray” with Julia B. Lindsey’s Insights on Effective Reading Instruction, Troy Hicks, Emma Chappel, Kirstin Fish, Anne Hosking, Jill Johnston, Jodi Juergens, Georgianna Murray, Lindsay Picarski, Heidi Turchan, Meghan K. Block, Chad Waldron
Michigan Reading Journal

A Research-based Approach for Teaching Written Apologies to English for Academic Purposes Learners, Lisa Leopold
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Wakanda: Opening the High School Classroom to Afrofuturism, Carrie M. Mattern
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Doing the Work -- Collectively Pursuing Anti-Racist and Equitable Teaching: One High School English Department’s Journey, Sharon Murchie, Anthony Andrus, Pat Brennan, Gina Farnelli, Shelby Fletcher, Dawn Reed, Emily Solomon, Benjamin K. Woodcock
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

New Possibilities for the ESL Classroom: Toward an Appreciation of Creative Writing, Alyssa A. Jewell
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Building Sustainable Antiracist Coalition: Developing a Research Team for Studying Diverse Language and Literacy Practices at the University, Nicole L.G. Varty, Adrienne Jankens, Linda Jimenez, Anna Lindner, Mariel Krupansky
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

A Restorative Justice Book Club for Secondary Classrooms, Mary M. McConnaha
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Engaging Students and Teaching Life Skills through Community Collaboration, Kim Stein
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

hook’d on Ebonics and Black Texts: Enacting an Engaged Pedagogy in an 11th Grade ELA Classroom, Teaira McMurtry PhD
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Reading on the Ropes: A Pilot Study of an Accelerated Remediation Program with Alternative High School Students, Joanne V. Coggins, Laura C. Briggs
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Cultivating Lifelong Readers: A Study of How English Teachers Can Bring Pleasure Back into the Reading Lives of Students, Kaylie Jo Schertzing
Culminating Experience Projects

Justifying Juneteenth: A Critical Pairing of Two Children's Texts, Rebecca Witte, Amber Lawson
Michigan Reading Journal

An Instructional Framework to Building Comprehension and Engagement Through Dialogic and Metacognitive Inquiry, Alicia Eileen Wells
Culminating Experience Projects

Professional Learning Communities: A way to Provide General Education Teachers with Strategies to Support Fluency, Meredith Skorupski
Culminating Experience Projects

Every Good Thing: Promoting Culturally Relevant Education and Early Literacy Skills of Young African American Boys Living in Poverty, Laura Thormann
Culminating Experience Projects

Improving Writing Instruction Through Professional Development, Katherine Irene Miller
Culminating Experience Projects

Developing Teacher Knowledge of the Science of Reading: Phonemic Awareness & Phonics, Megan Erin Dziedzic
Culminating Experience Projects

Professional Development through Literacy Coaching: Tools to Assist Literacy Coaches in Self-Reflection to Build Capacity, Rose M. Brooks
Culminating Experience Projects

Addressing Disengagement in Text Through An Increase in Autonomy, Access, and Relevant Text Selection, Amanda L. Saffian
Masters Theses

Multimodal Vocabulary Instruction: An Approach for Supporting Reading Comprehension, Mary K. Van Singel
Masters Theses

ELL Cultural Inclusion Initiative, Julia L. Gidley
Masters Theses

Taking Up the Work: Snapshots of Disciplinary Literacy Instruction, Part I, Laura Gabrion, Jenelle Williams
Michigan Reading Journal

Using Crossover and Traditional Picturebooks to Discuss Emotions, William P. Bintz, Shabnam Moini Chaghervand
Michigan Reading Journal

Great Lakes Great Books: A New Season, Lynette Marten Suckow
Michigan Reading Journal

The Spirit Murdering of Black Kindergarteners by the Lock and Load Literacy Routine, Amber Lawson
Michigan Reading Journal

Curriculum is a Map, Not a GPS: Culturally Responsive Reading Instruction in Urban Schools, Danielle Hay
Culminating Experience Projects

Literacy as a Civil Right in the Past, Present and Future: Disciplinary Literacies as an Act of Advocacy, Liberation, and Community-Building, Rosalyn Shahid Ph.D, Melissa A. Brooks-Yip
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Enacting Disciplinary Literacy Instruction: Essential Practices in Action, Darin B. Stockdill, Stacie B. Woodward
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Journeying Toward Liberation: Creating Civic Utopias through Restorative Literacies, Rae L. Oviatt, Megan McElwee, Owen Farney
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Supporting English Language Learners: Preparing Content Area Teachers to Promote Academic Achievement among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learner Populations., Molly K. Roesler
Culminating Experience Projects

Feedback to Feed Forward: Creating Formative Feedback to Improve Student Writing, Adam R. Huttenga
Culminating Experience Projects

Socially Just Literacy Teaching within Virtual Spaces: Using Woods’ Model for Evaluating Practice, Elizabeth Isidro, Laura Teichert
Michigan Reading Journal

The Stance, the Text, and the Talk: Three Components of a Critical Race-Oriented Interactive Read Aloud, Rebecca Witte
Michigan Reading Journal

Writing as a Vessel for Thinking: Incorporating Self-Regulation, Metacognition, and Formative Assessment in the Middle School ELA Classroom, Alyssha N. Ginzel
Michigan Reading Journal

Free to Read: Growing Elementary Students' Literacy in the Summer, Allison M. Nieboer
Michigan Reading Journal

Power of Yet: The Integration of the Culturally Responsive Literature with the Productive Struggle in Mathematics, Kathleen Crawford-McKinney, Asli Ozgun-Koca, Kristy Rebar
Michigan Reading Journal

Teacher of Literature and Literacy: Rethinking Secondary English Language Arts, Jenelle Williams, Laura Gabrion
Michigan Reading Journal

Great Lakes Great Books Go Graphic, Lynette Marten Suckow
Michigan Reading Journal

The Impact of Learner & Instructor Expectations on L2 Online Motivation, Sara Kate Simon
Masters Theses

Increasing Academic Achievement Through Reading Motivation and Strong Family Partnerships, Megan Hubbard
Culminating Experience Projects

Expanding Vocabulary with Children's Books, Sara J. Churchill, Kathleen Everts Danielson
Michigan Reading Journal

Bounding our Liberation Together: Toward Pedagogies of Coalitional Liberation, Rae L. Oviatt, Stephanie F. Reid
Michigan Reading Journal

Missing Pieces and Voices: Steps for Teachers to Engage in Science of Reading Policy and Practice, Kathleen S. Howe, Teddy D. Roop
Michigan Reading Journal

Building Bridges: Culturally Relevant Teaching with Literature Circles and Multicultural Literature, Amber Lawson
Michigan Reading Journal

Lift Every (Student) Voice with the Essential Instructional Practices for Disciplinary Literacy, Jenelle Williams, Laura Gabrion
Michigan Reading Journal

Using a Ternion of Michigan’s Resources to Support a Symbiotic Family/School Partnership, Darreth R. Rice
Michigan Reading Journal

Great Lake Great Books Adapting to Change, Lynette Marten Suckow
Michigan Reading Journal

Teachers Leading Teachers: An Approach to Content-Area Literacy Instruction to Address Inequitable Education, Leah Metivier-Kearney
Culminating Experience Projects

Understanding Dyslexia as a Neurological Learning Disability: A Plan for an Instructive Website for Parents and Early Elementary Teachers, Rasma M. Gertners
Culminating Experience Projects

English-for-Teaching in Higher Education: Discourse Functions and Language Exemplars, Eun-Young Julia Kim
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Muffintops, Fat Rolls, and Self Love: Using Fat Young Adult Texts to Promote Body Positivity, Laura M. Davis
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

The Poet X: Disrupting Shakespeare, Healthy Relationships, and Language Dynamics, Carrie M. Mattern
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Culturally Responsive Language Arts Teaching: Refiguring Curriculum with Counternarratives, Claire A. Breiholz, Rebecca Smith
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Graphic Novels for Multimodal Learning: Equity for English Learners, Katherine Suender, Susan Piazza
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Collaborative Inquiry to Support Critically Reading Children’s Literature, Laurie Rabinowitz, Amy Tondreau
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

A New Trend in Pronunciation Teaching, Nguyet Nguyen
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

The Impact of Attending Second Language Teaching Conferences, Jay Tanaka, María Díez-Ortega
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Policies, Practices, Places, and People: How Elementary Preservice Teachers Learned Literacy Teaching, Chad H. Waldron
Michigan Reading Journal

“Does Your Arm Hurt?” A Content Analysis of Upper Limb Differences in Children's Books, Amber Meyer, Vince Genareo
Michigan Reading Journal

Grey Clouds and Silver Linings: Professional Learning for Secondary Educators during COVID-19, Jenelle Williams
Michigan Reading Journal

Carrying the Stories of Las Mariposas: Literacy as Collective and Transformative, Deborah Vriend Van Duinen
Michigan Reading Journal

A Teacher's Guide to Vocabulary Development Across the Day, Annie P. Spear
Michigan Reading Journal

A TESOL Service Learning Program in Rural Michigan: An Innovative Approach to Preparing Pre-Service Teachers, April M. Burke, Sarah Case, Caitlin Hamstra
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Grammar, Grammar, and More Grammar: A Review of Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages 1st Ed., Grace Irwin
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Book Review: English in Action 3 (Third Edition), Deniz Toker
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Reading With Our Heads and Our Hearts to Build Empathy, Heidi Gibbons
Michigan Reading Journal

Assessing Young Children’s Language and Nonverbal Communication in Oral Personal Narratives, Shelley Stagg Peterson, Nazila Eisazadeh, Andrea Liendo
Michigan Reading Journal

A Call for Something Better: Classrooms as Foundations of Respectful Argument for Civic Engagement, Mark Dziedzic, Bryn Orum, Linda Denstaedt
Michigan Reading Journal

Feedback as a Connector in Remote Learning Environments, Heather Rottermond, Laura Gabrion
Michigan Reading Journal

Pizza, Pages, and Family Engagement: A Simple Approach to Family Literacy Night, Jennie Baumann
Michigan Reading Journal

Big Kids Need Books Too: Lessons Learned From Building Classroom Libraries at the Secondary Level, Jenelle Williams, Megan Kortlandt
Michigan Reading Journal

Essential Practices for Disciplinary Literacy Instruction in Secondary Classrooms, Jenelle Williams
Michigan Reading Journal

No More Random Acts of Literacy Coaching, Annie P. Spear
Michigan Reading Journal

Examining the Value of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in Cultivating Agency-focused, (Inter)Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy: A Story of One Collaborative International Project for English Learners, Zuzana Tomas, Margita Vojtkulakova, Nikola Lehotska, Marie Schottin
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Depictions of LGBTQ Athletes in Young Adult Literature that Interrogate Sport Culture, Katherine Mason Cramer
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Developing Critical Communities for Critical Conversations in K-12 Classrooms, Natalie Sue Svrcek, Henry Cody C. Miller
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Enhancing Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness in Argument Writing Pedagogy through Effective Adaptations for English Learners: Insights from C3WP Resource Analysis and Three Experienced Teachers’ Practices, Katelyn Walsh, Katey Robinson, Rachel Deacon, Zuzana Tomaš
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

From Critical Self Reflection to Cultivating Equitable Literacy Classrooms: Educators Creating PD as They Move Forward with Hope, Elisabeth Spinner, Emily Sommer, Naitnaphit C. Limlamai, Anna J. Roseboro, Lynne Lesky, Kim Stein, Rick Kreinbring, Shelley Esman
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Improving Reading Comprehension in Arabic English Language Learners, Amanda Watson
Culminating Experience Projects

Book Clubs in a Pandemic: Student Choice and Flexible Pedagogies as We Learned More About Ourselves and the World, Naitnaphit Limlamai
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Advancing Literacy: Using a Project Based Learning Academy to Increase Literacy Performance, Corrie A. Tuttle, Megan Adams
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Workplace English as Professional Development: The UW-Madison Model, Karen Parrillo
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Let's Read a Story!: Collaborative Meaning Making, Student Engagement, and Vocabulary Building Through the Use of Interactive Read-Alouds, Shaya Helbig, Susan V. Piazza
Michigan Reading Journal

I Wrote My Way Out, Sharon Murchie
Michigan Reading Journal

Creating an Online Community of Learners During the COVID-19 Shutdown Using Michigan’s Literacy Essentials, Annie P. Spear
Michigan Reading Journal

Essential Practices for Disciplinary Literacy Instruction in Secondary Classrooms, Laura Gabrion, Michelle Renna, Megan Schrauben, Jenelle Williams
Michigan Reading Journal

Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, Raven Jones Stanbrough
Michigan Reading Journal

Differentiating Literacy Instruction Through Guided Reading, Emily Clare Ringquist
Culminating Experience Projects

Staying Power, Elizabeth M. Brockman
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Grading for Growth: Introducing New Assessment Approaches in Traditional Grading Models, Beth A. Walsh-Moorman, Katie Ours, Aubrey Deaton, Maura McGinty-O'Hara
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Literacy Coaching Serving as A Way to Create Self-Efficacy in Educators, Stifle Teacher Burnout, and Improve Student Achievement Scores: A Framework for Coaching, Jamie L. Grant
Award Winners

The Moon Is Especially Full: Notes on Poetry, Teaching, Tests, and [Autistic] Intelligence, Chris Martin
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Establishing a Presumption of Competence in the ELA Classroom: One Teacher’s Story of Creating Space for Autistic Culture, Christopher Bass
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Using Inquiry in Teacher Professional Learning to Build Efficacy for Writing Instruction, Jacqueline B. Koonce, Melissa Brooks-Yip, Kathleen Gibson
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Yellow Pads and the Return of the Writer, Gregory Shafer
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Exploring Privilege with Young Adult Literature, Stefani Boutelier
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Writing on Demand in College, Career, and Community Writing: Preparing Students to Participate in the Pop-Up Parlor, Kelly J. Sassi, Hannah Stevens
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Learning the Language of Academic Writing: Using the C3WP as a Scaffold in the Secondary English Classroom, John Lennon
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Beyond Proving It: How C3WP Helps Students Write Nuanced Arguments and Purposeful Commentary, Kristin E. Smith
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

A Dog, a Cat and Professional Development: How two Bobbies introduced teachers to C3WP and Michigan’s Literacy Essentials, Delia King
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Daily Oral Language, the Bell Tolls for Thee: A Critique of Daily Sentence-Editing Exercises, Karen Pezzetti
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

If We Are to Believe in America, Mitchell Nobis
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Advocating for the Affective: Writing Hope into School Spaces, Nicole Sieben
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Everyday Advocacy as Part of Everyday Professionalism, Cathy A. Fleischer, Alaina Feliks, Melissa Brooks-Yip, Sarah Andrew-Vaughan
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

What Will You March For?, Erinn Bentley, Madison Workman
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Teaching Peer Feedback as Ethical Practice, Derek Miller, Troy Hicks, Susan Golab
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

“All the kids we are most concerned about”: Putting the At-Risk at Greater Risk by Teaching to the Common Core, Brian White, Lindsy Matteoni
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Three To Get Ready: Students Justify Peer Response in a Crowded Curriculum, Debbi Meister
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Student-Centered Approaches to Teaching Grammar and Writing, Lindsay J. Jeffers
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

The Quest for Respect: ESL Faculty and Programs in U.S. Higher Education, Ildiko Porter-Szucs
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Real Boys Don't Do Language and Literacy--Or Do They?, Christen M. Pearson
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Black Voices Matter, Shenika Hankerson
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

The International Baccalaureate Learner Profile: A Social Justice Framework in the English Language Arts Classroom, Kristin Sovis, Sarah Pancost
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

A Tapestry of Eyes in the Literacy/Literature Class, Gregory Shafer
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Of Lizards and Language, Bernadette Gongora
Language Arts Journal of Michigan