Jennifer Roberts's scientific contributions
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Publications (2)
Literacy educators may dismiss the recent outcry about the U. S. school "crisis" as an emotional and perhaps cynical bid for political gain and private profit, but the drop-out rate and college-going rate highlight an urgent, legitimate concern about whether all students are being served. Admittedly, multiple factors influence how and whether indiv...
Culturally Mediated Writing Instruction invites students to take an inquiry stance toward issues of interest and significance—exploring issues, framing questions, gathering information, synthesizing findings into messages, publishing or presenting their findings, and assessing their efforts before moving on to other inquiries. CMWI can be seen as a...
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... This is because children's literature offers a potentially nonthreatening environment from which children can explore and resist daily challenges (Todres, 2018). It is an avenue for students to make deep connections to their lives and to participate in dialogue and critique about those significant issues which they engage in on a daily basis (Patterson, Wickstrom, Roberts, Araujo, & Hoki, 2010). Many children and adolescent books explicitly or implicitly explore themes of human rights and social justice (Todres & Higinbotham, 2015). ...
... Table 2 includes the text set presented in the order we would use with our middle and high school students to develop the main themes of identity and agency, starting with books that our students may most relate to as mirrors and continuing with books that may serve as windows. Altogether, our goal is that this text set will help bi/multilingual learners "see" themselves, celebrate who they are, and develop critical literacy skills (Wickstrom, Araujo, Patterson, & Hoki, 2011). ...