Stephanie Grote-Garcia

University of the Incarnate Word · Dreeben School of Education

Literacy topics fluctuate each year in how much attention they receive in research and practice. The What’s Hot in Literacy annual survey asks twenty-five leading experts what literacy topics are currently receiving attention, or are hot, as well as which topics should be hot in the field. The results of these interviews are tallied to identify con...

For a quarter of a century the annual What’s Hot, What’s Not in Literacy Survey has interviewed literacy leaders to identify the literacy topics at the center of current attention. In this article the 25 years of longitudinal survey data are analyzed to identify the topics that were: (a) deemed the “hottest” and “coldest”, (b) received the most att...

Finding ways to develop preservice teachers (PSTs) as both writers and teachers of writing can be a heavy lift for teacher education programs. This article presents a portion of the data from a larger study undertaken as longitudinal, formative design research. Data were gathered from 410 PSTs over a three-year period across four courses in teacher...

Researchers utilized a historical context of the What’s Hot, What’s Not expert surveys over the last 20 years to examine literacy priorities and possible impacts. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were recently recognized as the hottest topic in the field of literacy education. Perhaps one of the unintended consequences of this intense focus i...

The What’s Hot in 2019 survey was conducted to measure the amount of attention currently being given to literacy topics in research and practice. Twenty-five literacy leaders were surveyed; results were subsequently categorized into three levels: a) extremely hot or cold, b) very hot or cold, or c) hot or cold This year, there were four topics deem...

Discussions regarding how to embed culturally relevant and responsive literacy learning towards more socially just and equitable classrooms have prompted the need for additional research. This sequential exploratory mixed-methods study explores (a) 288 literacy teachers’ perceptions of their abilities to address issues of bias, equity, and diversit...

The annual What’s Hot in Literacy survey was conducted to determine what topics are currently receiving attention, and how they are being addressed effectively within schools and in the emerging research. Twenty-five literacy experts served as panelists and were interviewed to determine which of the 30 topics were a focus of current attention. The...

The year 2021 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Texas Association for Literacy Education (TALE). The current study is a historical inquiry that explores the following research questions: (a) between the years 2011 and 2021, what contributions gave value to the mission of promoting literacy and enhancing the lives of all Texas citizens personall...

Unique to picture books featuring characters affected by war is the conflict that occurs over aspects of identity (e.g., ethnicity, class, religion). In this chapter Street’s (1984) well known Literacy Studies provides a lens for viewing picture books featuring characters affected by war. Such books present opportunities for discussing diversity wi...

This article discusses the current contradictory policies surrounding the push for phonics instruction in Texas schools. Focusing on this current iteration of the reading wars, this article seeks to help teachers develop a historical context for reading instruction, review existing research on learning to read, and turn that knowledge into practica...

Described in this chapter is the Pens and Swords program, a play-based literacy course. The program combines instruction in the sport of fencing with literacy skills that are specific to the sport. First explored is the program’s theoretical foundation, which is heavily grounded in the research supporting disciplinary literacy instruction. Followin...

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.

The What’s Hot in 2019 survey was conducted to measure the amount of attention currently being given to literacy topics in research and practice. Twenty-five literacy leaders were surveyed; results were subsequently categorized into three levels: a) extremely hot or cold, b) very hot or cold, or c) hot or cold This year, there were four topics deem...

The following article explores the “hot topics” in literacy for 2018, keeping the tradition of the “What’s hot in literacy” survey that was first published in 1997. Expert panelists from around the globe provided insight into current trends and issues in the field of literacy, resulting in digital and disciplinary literacies being classified as the...

For the past 20 years, Dr. Jack Cassidy and his collaborators have surveyed leaders in the field about the issues in literacy that are receiving attention and those that are no longer in the limelight and presented the findings in the annual “What’s Hot, What’s Not” column. This tradition has continued into 2017 as 25 literacy leaders and emerging...

This discussion focused on navigating the layers of text complexity to determine the embedded text supports provided by authors. Quantitative dimensions of the texts were examined, such as word count, number of sentences, sentence length, unique words, most used words and phrases, sentence variety, Flesch-Kincaid grade levels, and Flesch-Kincaid re...

The U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program offers a quick path to permanent residency and adjustment to the United States, with the major objectives of economic success, community involvement, and local integration. The success of the program partly depends on the response of the American community towards refugees. Using the foundational idea that mult...

This article provides an overview of learning albums, an original instructional method that transforms online photo albums, such as those found on Facebook or Instagram, into collaborative learning units that invite students to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate online information. One teacher educator’s experience of integrating learnin...

“Social Media as a 21st Century Playground,” was written by Stephanie Grote-Garcia, Tammy Francis Donaldson, Olive Kajoina, and Norman St. Clair. They compare the behaviors found in Jean Piaget’s stages of games to the behaviors used when engaging with social media as well as comparing Parten’s six categories of social play. https://www.pgpedia.co...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss a qualitative study that explored the use of seven social-media venues in advancing the pedagogical reasoning of preservice teachers. For this study, pedagogical reasoning is broken into six phases as defined in Shulman's (1987) Model of Pedagogical Reasoning and Action (i.e., comprehension, transformation,...

Researchers throughout the disciplines analyze written documents for features of interest to them and to their particular groups, and, in doing so, gain insights into human thought and social activity. Text analysis is especially important in the field of composition studies, which has its central research focus the production of written texts, par...