"Literacy Begins with
Language Skills." Next: The Teaching Young Children Staff Development
Guide 3(4): 6-7 (2010).
"Literacy Begins with
Language Skills." Teaching Young Children 3(4), 14-15 (2010).
"Paving the Way for
LIteracy: Three Factors Affecting Language Development in Children."
Kansas Journal of Reading 25(1): 18-22 (2010).
"Literacy Tutoring that
Works." Kansas Journal of Reading 25(1): 81-82 (2010) (with A. Dick).
"Improving Writing
Instruction: Ten Activities for Enhancing Teachers' effectiveness at
Teaching Writing." The Missouri Reader 33(2) (2009) (with D.
Massengill Shaw and C.E. Heider).
"21st Century Project Based
Learning: A Collaboration of thte Classroom and the Community." The
Transescent 34(1): 7-10 (2009) (with C.E. Heider).
"Preparing Teachers of
Writing: Components of a Successful Course on Writing Instruction."
The Reading Professor 31(1): 36-45 (12009).
Encyclopedia
entries
"Special Education Case
Law." Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage
Publications, 2010.
"National Association of
College and University Attorneys." Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2009.
Awards
and honors
Studies and Research Award,
Kansas Reading Association (2009)
Research in Reading Award,
Missouri State Council of the International Reading Association (2009)
Office/appointments
Research and studies committee
chairwoman, Kansas Reading Association
Executive board member and
historian, Missouri State Council of the International Reading Association
Kansas field council
representative, National Reading Conference
Institutional representative,
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Professors advisory panel,
Scholastic Books
asdf
Presentations
"To Ban or Not to Ban? That
is the Question: How Preservice Teachers View Banned and Challenged
Books" and "A Penguin, a Pony and One Naked Little Boy: An
Examination of Banned and Challenged Books," International Reading
Association Convention, Chicago, Ill., April 2010
"Endangered Species and
Expendable Luxiries: The Scarcity of Secondary Reading Specialists"
and "Teaching the Neglected: Six Activities to Enhance Writing
Instruction," National Reading Conference, Albuquerque, N.M.,
December 2009
"The Foundation of Literacy:
Activities to Develop the Oral Language Skills of Children," Plains
International Reading Association Conference, Branson, Mo., Noveember 2009
"The Key to a Successful
Start with Literacy: Activities to Develop the Language Skills of
Children," National Association for the Education of Young children
Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2009
"Lowering the Dropout Rate:
The High Demand and Low Supply of Secondary Reading Specialists,"
National Dropout Prevention Center/Netowrk, San Antonio, Texas, October
2009
"The Freedom to Read v. the
Right to Ban: Examining Banned and Challenged Books in Schools,"
Kansas Reading Conference, Topeka, October 2009
