Marla Mallette

Binghamton University | SUNY Binghamton · Graduate School of Education

In the column, By Educators, For Educators, the Editors of The Reading Teacher highlight ideas from the Interesting Ways series edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/. Curated by Tom Barrett, the Interesting Ways Series is an example of crowdsourcing or the power of collaborative thought. The Interesting Ways Series has more than 30 topics, with new ideas...

The Editors of The Reading Teacher introduce a new column, “By Educators, for Educators” through sharing ideas from the Interesting Ways series edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/. Curated by Tom Barrett, the Interesting Ways Series is an example of crowdsourcing or the power collaborative thought. The Interesting Ways Series has more than 30 topics, wi...

The Editors of The Reading Teacher introduce a new column, “By Educators, for Educators” through sharing ideas from the Interesting Ways series edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/. Curated by Tom Barrett, the Interesting Ways Series is an example of crowdsourcing or the power collaborative thought. The Interesting Ways Series has more than 30 topics, wi...

This Editorial provides an overview about previous research that has been documented to inform practice. We moved from this research base and asked a wider audience to respond to what books or articles they believed made a difference to classroom practice. Each of the authors whose books were mentioned was asked to write an article for The Reading...

In this editorial, we reflect on the changes to The Reading Teacher in Volume 65. Although we focus on aesthetics, rather than the content, we do so to provide an overview of the changes, offer context for the cover photographs, and recognize the work of the photographers. However, as noted in the editorial, these changes to the appearance would be...

Ninety teachers working in award-winning middle schools responded to a survey that explored, quantitatively and qualitatively, how they (1) defined themselves as teachers of literacy, (2) viewed multiliteracies in adolescents' lives, and (3) valued these literacies in the classroom. Mean scores indicated that Basic Literacies (e.g., comprehension,...

Little is known about reading ability among doctoral students. Thus, we used a multi-stage mixed analysis to examine 205 doctoral students' levels of reading ability, their perceptions of barriers that prevented them from reading empirical articles, and the relationship between these two sets of constructs. Approximately 10% of doctoral students at...

The purpose of this study was to explore both the short-term and long-term value of a summer literacy program on the literacy learning of at-risk seventh- and eighth-grade students. The students who participated in the study were all slotted for grade-level retention. The program brought them from an isolated and impoverished area to a university c...

The Anna Plan is a unique delivery model for enhancing schoolwide literacy instruction in the primary grades. Based on the principles of Reading Recovery and Four Blocks literacy instruction, it provides supplementary reading instruction through the distinctive use of teaching staff. Over six years, it has resulted in sweeping changes in the way li...

Although the highly popular Accelerated Reader (AR) book reading incentive program claims to motivate children of all reading ability levels, very little independent empirical research has examined this assertion. To help fill this void, we used two related three-factor mixed designs with Method (AR vs. Control), Gender, and either Grade Level(four...

The Writing Observation Framework (WOF) is a new tool for enhancing writing instruction in schools. The WOF organizes principles of writing instruction In a way that improves the evaluation of teachers' writing practices, encourages a shared philosophy of the writing process and its instruction, and assists schools in demonstrating the integrity of...

A close relationship has always existed between literacy and technology. From an historical perspective, as new technologies emerged, new forms of literacy were con-structed to support them (e.g., Manguel, 1996). This same pattern holds true for one of today's most influential technologies, the Internet. Literacy scholars are finding that infor-mat...

In this Critical Issues, we argue that the preparation of novice literacy researchers should change in response to the growing diversification of epistemologies and methods employed in literacy research. We assert that the preparation of novice literacy researchers should be aimed at developing students who understand and appreciate a broad range o...

The purpose of this study was to explore the meanings preservice teachers constructed about students with reading difficulties. Qualitative techniques were employed to develop six case studies to understand better how preservice teachers framed their meanings. Cross-case analysis revealed that each preservice teacher's stance on meaning, while idio...

This analysis explored how preservice teachers’ development of knowledge about struggling readers was located in their white, middle‐class identities. Framed within the critical paradigm, data previously collected on two preservice teachers were analyzed to explore the extent to which they accepted, resisted, and negotiated hegemonic ideologies. An...

The present study explored preservice elementary teachers' literature circle discussion of a multicultural young adult novel with a focus on two research questions: (a) How do preservice teachers discuss a multicultural young adult novel? and, (b) What views and theories informed their understanding of literature response discussion? The discussion...

The present study explored preservice elementary teachers’ literature circle discussion of a multicultural young adult novel with a focus on two research questions: (a) How do preservice teachers discuss a multicultural young adult novel? and, (b) What views and theories informed their understanding of literature response discussion? The discussion...

Typescript (photocopy). Vita. Abstract. Includes appendices. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-84).