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Jim is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning of the University of Toronto. His research focuses on literacy development in multilingual school contexts as well as on the potential roles of technology in promoting language and literacy development. In recent years, he has been working actively with teachers to identify ways of increasing the literacy engagement of learners in multilingual school contexts.
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Kelly is a literacy education author and consultant, specializing in the teaching of English Language Arts for grades 4-12. Informed by a 35-year teaching career, Kelly has developed and shares an ever-evolving body of work that helps teachers engage and empower even the most reluctant readers and writers. Kelly is the former president of the Secondary Reading Group for the International Literacy Association and the author of several professional development books.
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New Perspectives in Building Readers and Writers Teaching and Supporting Writing and Close Reading in the Classroom COMING SOON: Background Knowledge: To Read Stuff, You have to Know Stuff
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Freddy is President and CEO of TextProject, a nonprofit that provides resources to support higher reading levels. She is also a research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has worked in the field of early reading acquisition for 45 years, first as a teacher’s aide and teacher of primary-level students in California and, subsequently, as a teacher and researcher.
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Text Complexity Systems: A Teacher’s Toolkit Recovery and Rebuilding for Unfinished Learning in English/Language Arts New Perspectives in Learning Vocabulary: Generative Vocabulary
What is a Generative Approach to Vocabulary Instruction? How to Start Teaching a Generative Vocabulary Approach
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Ernest is the Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters; Coyle Professor in Literacy Education; Director, Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education; Director, NCTE James R. Squire Office for Policy Research; and Professor, English and Africana Studies Departments at the University of Notre Dame. He was the Macy Professor of English Education and former Director of Teachers College’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), Columbia University; a class of 2014 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association; and the Past-President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
The Central Roles of Language Awareness and Literacy Engagement in Accelerating Students’ Academic Development
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New Directions in Literacy Teaching: Engaging Readers and Writers in 21st Century K-12 Classrooms
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