Michael Manderino

Northern Illinois University · Department of Literacy Education

The What's Hot in Literacy Annual Survey serves as a springboard for idea generation and reflection about what areas of literacy should be a focus of attention. In this article, the authors share information about three of the “hottest” topics from the 2019 survey: digital literacies, disciplinary literacies, and English learners. Each discussion i...

The What's Hot in Literacy Annual Survey serves as a springboard for idea generation and reflection about what areas of literacy should be a focus of attention.

Discipline‐specific literacy instruction is key to supporting adolescents’ overall literacy development. Job‐embedded professional development that supports teachers’ discipline‐specific literacy instruction via instructional coaching is a promising approach to enacting disciplinary literacy instruction in English language arts (ELA) classrooms. Fi...

This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections.

This study investigated how a high school literacy coach provided coaching to support teachers’ understanding and implementation of disciplinary literacy instruction. With a focus on collaborations between the literacy coach and teachers in the disciplines of social studies, math, and English, this article presents three case studies that illustrat...

This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections.

Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning explores intersections of digital and disciplinary literacies across multiple learning contexts. Topics addressed in the column come from variety of disciplines and include work with youth and adults, both in school and out of school. Digital enhancements will bring content to life and provoke questions,...

This article presents an approach to reading like a digital writer to support adolescents' narrative writing in digital formats. By providing digital mentor texts for students to read like digital writers, a more comprehensive and perhaps deeper understanding of digital writing and the memoir genre can emerge.

In recent years, disciplinary literacy has been at the forefront of adolescent literacy research and practice but has largely focused on the four core content areas: English language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics. Drawing on a physical education lens, this article is a call to expand the definitions, approaches, and framework of di...

This chapter describes a historical inquiry project that used a social networking site (www.ning.com) to engage students in writing both traditionally and multimodally about the 1960's. Students were provided basic demographic information about a fictional individual living in the 1960's and then were instructed to build a social networking profile...

In this case study, two teacher educators in literacy education examine preservice teachers' (N = 20) Multimedia Memoirs, focusing specifically on their learning of multimodal writing processes during a language arts methods course. Data analyzed for this study includes a set of Multimedia Memoirs and written reflections. The researchers find that...