Lesley Mandel Morrow is a distinguished professor
at Rutgers the State University of NJ where she is
Director of the Center for Literacy Development. Dr.
Morrow was president of IRA (ILA) and President of
the Reading Hall of Fame. She has received the Literacy
Research Association's Ocar Causey Award the ILAs
William S. Gray award for outstanding research that
has changed the field of literacy. Dr. Morrow has 300
publications in the form of books, articles and book
chapter.
Susan M. Dougherty is an assistant professor of literacy
education at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ.
She works with future teachers and literacy specialists,
with a particular interest in preparing them to support
children who find literacy learning difficult. She
and her colleagues Dana Robertson and Evelyn Ford-
Connors have recently published a book focused on
engaging and supporting all readers in grades 4-8.
Kenneth Kunz is a Supervisor of Curriculum and
Instruction for the Wall Township Public Schools in
Wall, New Jersey. Ken serves as President of the NJ
Literacy Association, a Board Member of the Rutgers
Center for Literacy Development, and Co-Chair of the
Teacher Education Research Study Group (TERSG) at
LRA.
Maureen Hall is a teacher. In over 40 years as an
educator, she has taught at many grade levels and
was a school administrator for eleven years. She currently
teaches literacy at the Rutgers Graduate School
of Education and delivers professional development
through the Rutgers Center for Literacy Development
throughout the state of New Jersey.
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Recommended Citation
Morrow, Lesley; Dougherty, Susan M.; Kunz, Kenneth; and Hall, Maureen
(2017)
"Rutgers Reading Club: An After School Program to Motivate and Enhance Literacy for Struggling Readers,"
Michigan Reading Journal: Vol. 49:
Iss.
3, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/mrj/vol49/iss3/11
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