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Empathy Beyond Sympathy: Rediscovering Humanity
Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024)Editor’s Introduction | Empathy Beyond Sympathy: Rediscovering Humanity
JoLLE 2025 Winter Conference Program and Infographic
Research Articles
Using Self-Reflection to Improve Racial Literacy: One White ELL Teacher's Journey by Nicole R. Misra
Conceptual/Theoretical Article
Critical Literacy Needs Narrative Discourse by Robert Jean LeBlanc
Voices from the Field
Scholars Speak Out
Madrasas and English Language Teaching by Yasir Hussain and Luis Javier Pentón Herrera
Children and Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Tokyo Night Parade reviewed by Joanna Meyer and Mia Meyer
I am Golden reviewed by Sarah-Anne Hammer and Hosanna Hammer
Dreamers reviewed by Sarah-Anne Hammer and Hosanna Hammer
A Thousand Steps Into Night reviewed by Jason Kelley
Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation reviewed by Jason Kelley
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Multiliteracies as Pedagogy: Connecting, Advocating, Resisting
Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024)Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Multiliteracies as Pedagogy: Connecting, Advocating, Resisting
Research Articles
Tatum’s Social Media Activism as Multiliteracies: Connecting, Advocating, and Resisting Social Injustices
VSCO Stickers Unpeeled: Engaging Critical and Multiliteracies Pedagogy with Preservice English Teachers
Multimodal Writing for Promoting Multilingual Adolescents’ Writing Growth: An Integrative Research ReviewConceptual/Theoretical Article
Voices from the Field
Pedagogy and Practice: Creating Spaces for Multilingual Learners to Create and Belong
Scholars Speak Out
Who am I? What am I? Why am I? How am I? Where am I? Transnational Raciosemiolingual Exceptionalism and the Schizophrenic Exotism of LiteraciesAcademic Book Reviews
Spence, L., & Mitra, A. (2023). Educational neuroscience for literacy teachers.
Routledge.Smith, P. (2023). Black immigrant literacies: Intersections of race, language,
and culture in the classroom. Teachers College Press.CYAL Book Reviews
Thompkins-Bigelow, J. (2022). Abdul’s Story. Simon & Schuster
Juana, M. (2023). Alma and How She Got Her Name. Candlewick Press.
Medina, M. (2022). Merci suárez plays it cool. Candlewick Press.
Gabriela, B. (2023). Only for a Little While. HarperCollins Publishers
Schu, J. & Castillo, L. (2023). This is a story. Candlewick Press.
Maurene, G. (2023). Throwback. Zando.
Jenny, S. (2022). With Lots of Love. Penguin Young Readers Group.
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Creative Non-FictionWinter Conference Reflection
Ngoc My (Michelle) Tran and Taylor Blankstein-Miller, Co-Conference Chairs
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The Intersection of Identities, Texts, and Activism
Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023)Editor's Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: The Intersection of Identities, Texts, and Activism
Research Articles
Teacher Candidates, Persona Dolls, and Class LibrariesMultiple Pathways to Perspectival Learning: Children’s Literature in Preservice Teacher Education
“It Brought Me Back”: Using Young Adult Book Clubs to Develop Preservice Teachers’ Sympathetic Knowledge of Adolescents/ceThe Gradual Release of the Canonical Grasp: An Exercise in Excavation
The Bilingual Literacy Development Model: A Holistic Way to Support Spanish-speaking Children
Voices from the Field
Guided Self-Selection of Texts to Empower Teachers and Students
Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Jenny, L. (2023). Everyone Loves Lunchtime but Zia. Alfred A. Knopf.
Jacqueline, W. (2023). Remember Us. Penguin Random House LCC.
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Non-Fiction Story
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Decolonizing and Humanizing Practices in Education
Vol. 19 No. 1 (2023)Editor’s Introduction Editor’s Introduction: Decolonizing and Humanizing Practices in EducationAcademic Articles
Research Articles
“I’m Starved For That”: Preservice Teachers’ Experiences with Video Analysis
Negotiating Word Meanings and Identities in a Translanguaging Space
Socio-cognitive research in action: What can we learn from a single case?Voices from the Field
“I Want You to Want Me Too”: Enacting Linguistic Justice in Language & Grammar Courses
“What if what I want to say is not enough for what I have to say?” Expanding Meaning-Making Opportunities by Using Adinkra Symbols and Yoruba Proverbs
Critical Approaches to Media Literacy in Teacher Education: Accounting for the Challenges of Post-Truth PoliticsScholars Speak Out
Is Post Traumatic Test Disorder Killing Your Students’ Love of Literacy?
To Hover Amidst the Zip: Reflections on Moments of Silence in Literacy ClassroomsAcademic Book Reviews
Navigating the Intersection of Race, Culture, and Education: Lessons from Race at the TopChildren & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Hayden, C. (2022). The First Thing About You.
Nicholls, Sally (2022). Silent stars go by. Walker Books
Wolf, A. (2022). The snow fell three graves deep: Voices from the Donner Party.
Candlewick Press.Morris, B. (2021). The cost of knowing. Simon Pulse.
Slack, M. H. (2022). The sun shines on the jungle. Walker Books Ltd.
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Poetry
“An Epic Testimonio,” “Critical Resistance and Cyclical Nature,” & “Representation Matters”
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Navigating Through the Challenges
Vol. 18 No. 2 (2022)Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Navigating Through the Challenges
Academic Articles
Research Articles
Applying an Intersectional Framework to the Literacy Worlds of Preservice Teachers
“We Shall Take Their Children Away and Rear Them to the
Fatherland”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a “Parent Advocacy” GroupNeoliberalism, Critical Literacy, and the Everyday: A Post-Qual Informed Multi-Genre Inquiry
Considering Collective Motivation to Read: A Narrative, Inquiry
The Influences of Teacher Knowledge on Qualitative Writing Assessment
Scholars Speak Out
Do You Want to Make a TikTok? Is It Time to BeReal?: Gen Z, Social Media, and Digital Literacies
Towards Linguistic and Disability Justice in Education
A Critical Pedagogy for Love and Healing Toward Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia
Academic Book Reviews
Chavez, F. R. (2021). The anti-racist writing workshop: How to decolonize the
creative classroom. Haymarket Books.García, O., & Kleifgen, J.A. (2018). Educating emergent bilinguals: Policies,
programs, and practices for English learners (2nd ed.). Teachers College
Press.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Joseph, F., & Joseph, P. (2022). Better than we found it: Conversations to help
save the world. Candlewick Press.
Kulka, J. (2019). Undercover ostrich. Carolrhoda Books.
Cherrix, A., & Goodale, E. B. (2022). Good Night, Little Bookstore. Candlewick.
Hesse, K., & Voake, C. (2022). Granny and Bean. Candlewick.
Blackburne, L., & Kuo, J. (2021). I Dream of Popo. Amsterdam University Press
Griffin, N., & Hindley, K. (2022). Smashie McPerter and the Shocking Rocket Robbery (Smashie
McPerter Investigates). Candlewick.
poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Visual Art
Life Cycle of Language: From Child to Adult
Poetry
Title: Master Teacher: American History X & I Don’t Wanna Teach No More
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American History X- Spoken Word:
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Language and Literacy through International Citizenship Education
Vol. 18 No. 1 (2022)Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Language and Literacy through International Citizenship Education
Conference Keynote Videos and Reflection
Conference Reflection by the Conference Chair
Academic Articles
Research Articles
Relational Narrating: Supporting a Reluctant Writer in Writing Workshop
Youth Testimony to Contend with Trauma
Representations of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Rural Ways of Being in Picture Books for Children
“I Couldn’t Sleep”: Tension in Preservice Teacher Writing Instruction
Language, Literacy, and Love: A Critical Framework for Teaching Adolescent Emergent Bilinguals
Voices from the Field
Disciplinary Literacy Strategies to Support Transactions in Elementary Social Studies
Academic Book Reviews
Ladson-Billings, G. (2021) Critical race theory in educations: A scholar’s
journey. Teachers College Press.Brown, C.P. (2021). Resisting the KINDER-RACE: Restoring joy to early
learning. Teachers College Press.Campbell-Whatley, G.D., Rodriguez, D. & Agrawal, J. (2021). STEAM meets
story: Using adolescent fiction and film to spark deeper learning. Teachers
College Press.Boyles, N. (2020). Classroom reading to engage the heart & mind: 200+ picture
books to start SEL conversations. W.W. Norton & Company.Colwell, J., Hutchison, A., & Woodward, L. (2021). Digitally supported
disciplinary literacy for diverse K-5 classrooms. Teachers College Press.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Picture Book ReviewsWang, A., & Chin, J. (Illustrator) (2021). Watercress. Neal Porter Books.
Cornwall, G., & Cornwall, G. (Illustrator) (2020). Jabari Tries. Scholastic Inc.
Pilkey, D., & Pilkey, D. (Illustrator) (2021). Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives.
Graphix.Yang, K. K., & Wada, R. (Illustrator) (2021). From the Tops of the Trees.
Carolrhoda Books.Sala, L., & Hoang, Z. G. (Illustrator) (2021). Mi Casa Is My Home. Candlewick.
Bates, J. C. & Ford, A. G. (Illustrator) (2021). Time for Best, Old House. Candlewick.
Young Adult Book Reviews Thakur, S. (2020). Somebody Give This Heart a Pen. Candlewick.Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Poetry
Title: “My Open Wound” & “My Librarian”
Title: “Shakespeare 是什麼?”
Visual ArtTitles: “An Attempt to Hold a Mirror to Zaffar Kunial’s ‘The Word'”
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Resisting “Normality” through Community Reciprocity
Vol. 17 No. 2 (2021)Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Resisting “Normality” through Community Reciprocity
Academic Articles
Research Articles
Teaching and Assessing Early Literacy during COVID-19 and Beyond
The Black Box: Close Reading Literary Life
Embodied Literacies of Sexuality and Gender of College Students
Reconfiguring Literacies in the Age of Misinformation and Disinformation
Voices from the Field
Can(n)non Fodder No More: Disrupting Common Arguments that Support a Canonical Empire
Magic Water: The Symbolic and Healing Nature of Water in Black Children’s Literature
Academic Book Reviews
Ticknor, A. S., Howard, C., & Overstreet, M. (2021). It's not "one more thing":
Culturally responsive and affirming strategies in K-12 literacy classrooms.
Rowman & Littlefield.Hobbs, R. (2020). Media literacy in action: Questioning the media. Rowman &
Littlefield.Godfrey, L. (2019). Hemingway in the digital age: Reflections on teaching,
reading, and understanding. The Kent State University Press.Srinivasan, M. (2019). SEL every day: Integrating social and emotional
learning with instruction in secondary classrooms. Norton.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Yoo, P. (2021). From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that
Galvanized the Asian American Movement. Norton Young Readers.Maillard, K. N., & Martinez-Neal, J. (Illustrator) (2019). Fry Bread: A Native
American Family Story. Roaring Brook Press.Barbosa, B., & Rodriguez, E. (Illustrator) (2020). I am!: Affirmations for resilience.
Rise x Penguin Workshop.Davids, S., Mays, N. K., & Pawis-Steckley, J. M. (Illustrator) (2021). Sharice’s big
Young Adult Book Reviews
voice: A Native kid becomes a congresswoman. HarperCollins.Pitcher, C. (2020). Lies Like Poison. Margaret K. McElderry Books.
Suk, S. (2021). Made in Korea. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
PoetryTitle: “It Just Feels Different”
Title: “Teachers Worry, Too”
Title: “More Than a Class (Poetry for Two Voices)”
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Towards Transformative Justice: Cultivating Accountable Community and Empowering Solidarity in Language and Literacy Education
Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021)Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Transformation Through Radical Support
Conference Keynotes
Watch Dr. Battachary’s Welcome Speech, You Must Make the Injustice Visible
Racial Literacy Poetics for the Academy & Beyond
Watch Dr. Yang’s keynote address, Literacy for Solidarity: Or, How to Honor Ancestors Not Our Own
Academic Articles
“These Are Normal People”: White High School Students’ Responses to Interracial Literary Fiction
Disciplinary Literacy: Successes and Challenges of Professional Development
Collage Praxis: What Collage Can Teach Us about Teaching and Knowledge Generation
Voices from the FieldWhat Can Translation Do? Language, Power, and Identity in an Elementary Classroom
Chasing New Worlds: Stories of Roleplaying in Classroom Spaces
Academic Book Reviews
Lemieux, A. (2020). De/constructing literacies: Considerations for
Engagement. Peter Lang, Inc.Spires, H. A., Kerkhoff, S. N., & Paul, C. M. (2020). Read, write, inquire:
Disciplinary literacy in grades 6-12. Teachers College Press.Shelton, S. A., & Sieben, N. (Eds.). (2020). Narratives of hope and grief in
higher education. Palgrave Macmillan.Lau S.M.C., & Van Viegen S. (Eds.). (2020). Plurilingual Pedagogies: Critical
and Creative Endeavors for Equitable Language in Education. Springer.Ginsberg, R., & Glenn, W. J. (2019). Engaging with multicultural YA literature
in the secondary classroom: Critical approaches for critical educators.
Routledge.Children & Young adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Donnelly, R. (2020). Green machine: The slightly gross truth about turning your
food scraps into green energy. Henry Holt and Company.Kulka, J. (2019). Undercover ostrich. Carolrhoda Books.
Mathieu, J. (2019). The liars of Mariposa Island. Roaring Book Press.
Tharp, J. (2020). It’s okay to be a unicorn!. Imprint.
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Poetry:Titles: “Repair Narratives Matter,” “On Translanguaging,” & “Incarceration Nation”
Title: “Speak Proper English,” “In a Nut Shell” & “Saying No”
Visual Arts:Title: “Girl with Red” & “Mushroom”
Title: “Underpainting Quilt” & “On Memory”
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Growing Pains
Vol. 16 No. 2 (2020)Editor’s Introduction
Academic Articles
Diversity in Newbery Medal-Winning Titles: A Content Analysis
Moving Toward a Method for YAL in Secondary English Teacher Education
Voices from the Field
Taking Scissors to Shakespeare
Justice for Justyce: Using Dear Martin and Founding Documents to Create Revolutionary Remixes
Academic Book Reviews
Gordon, B. (2020). The joyful teacher: Strategies for becoming the teacher every
student deserves. Heinemann.Garcia, A., Witte, S., Dail. J. S. (Eds.). (2020). Studying gaming literacies:
Theories to inform classroom practice. Brill.Baker-Bell, A. (2020). Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and
Pedagogy. Routledge and NCTE.Lacina, J., & Griffith, R. (Eds.). (2020). Preparing globally minded literacy
teachers: Knowledge, practices, and case studies. Routledge.Lavender, I., III. (2019). Afrofuturism rising: The literary prehistory of a
movement. The Ohio State University Press.Hiebert, E. H. (2020).Teaching words and how they work: Small changes for
big vocabulary results. Teachers College Press.Brouillette, L. (2019). Arts integration in diverse K–5 classrooms: Cultivating
literacy skills and conceptual understanding. Teachers College Press.Kinloch, V., Burkhard, T., & Penn, C. M. (Eds.). (2020). Race, Justice, and
Activism in Literacy Instruction. Teachers College Press.Marco, Katherine J. & Zoss, Michelle (Eds.) (2019). A symphony of possibilities:
A handbook for arts integration in secondary English language arts.
National Council of Teachers of English.Fair, R. (2020). Southern gay teacher: A memoir by Randy Fair. Atmosphere
Press.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Ciccotello, M. (2019). Twins. Farrar Straus Giroux.
Lee, M. & Jevons, C. (Illustrator). (2018). My best friend is a goldfish. Carolrhoda
Books.Medina, M. (2020). Evelyn Del Rey is moving away. Candlewick Press.
Lindstrom, C. (2020). We are water protectors. Roaring Brook Press.
Bandy, M. S., & Stein, E. (2020). Northbound: A train ride out of segregation. Candlewick Press.
Doeden, M. (2018). John Lewis: Courage in action. Lerner Publications.
Hale, S., Hale, D., & Pham, L. (Illustrator). (2019). The princess in black and the
bathtime battle. Candlewick Press.Goldstein, M. J. (2018). Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride. Lerner Publications.
Lippincott, R., Iaconis, T., & Daughtry, M. (2018). Five feet apart. Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers.Morpurgo, M. (2019) The day the world stopped turning. Feiwel and Friends.
Poetry
Title: “Soldier, Take Their Minds Off Your Shoulders”
Title: “Posthuman Intra-Action”
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Doing the Work: Moving Past What We Already Know to Enact Change in Language and Literacy Education
Vol. 16 No. 1 (2020)Editor’s Introduction
Doing the Work: Moving Past What We Already Know to Enact Change in Language and Literacy Education
Conference Keynote Articles and Videos
We Been Knowin’: Toward an Antiracist Language and Literacy Education
Video:https://youtu.be/kGKyzewX6mY
On Knowing: Willingness, Fugitivity, and Abolition in Precarious Times
Video:https://youtu.be/rcoC_TFfn0Y
Academic Articles
Identifying Promising Literacy Practices for Black Males in P-12 Classrooms: An Integrative Review
Playful Images and Truthful Words: Eight-Graders Respond to Shaun Tan’s Stick Figures
Voices from the Field
Seeing and Nurturing Young Children’s Reading Identities
Academic Book Reviews
Charest, B. & Sjostrom, K. (2019). Unsettling education: Searching for ethical
footing in a time of reform. New York, NY: Peter Lang.Scanlan, M., Hunter, C., & Howard, E. R. (2019). Culturally and linguistically
responsive education: Designing networks that transform schools.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Bentley, D. F. & Souto-Manning, M. (2019). Pre-K stories: Playing with
authorship and integrating curriculum in early childhood. New York, NY:
Teachers College Press.Dutro, E. (2019). The vulnerable heart of literacy: Centering trauma as powerful
pedagogy. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Bishop, P. A., Downes, J. M., & Farber, K. (2019). Personalized learning in the
middle mrades: A guide for classroom teachers and school leaders.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.Thomas. E. E. (2019). The dark fantastic: Race and the imagination from Harry
Potter to The Hunger Games. New York, NY: New York University Press.Borsheim-Black, C., & Sarigianides, S. T. (2019). Letting go of literacy
Whiteness: Antiracist literature instruction for White students. New
York, NY: Teachers College Press.Moore, C., & Palmer, C. C. (2019). Teaching the history of the English language.
New York, NY: Modern Language Association.Pyles, D. G., Rish, R. M., & Warner, J. (2019). Negotiating place and space
through digital literacies: Research and practice. Charlotte, NC:
Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Picture Book ReviewsCordero, C. (2018). Superhero Levi. Zeeland, MI: Flywheel Books.
Shi, Q. (2018). The weaver. London, UK: Andersen Press Ltd.
Sanders, R., & Salerno, S. (Illustrator). (2018). Pride: The story of Harvey Milk and
the rainbow flag. New York, NY: Random House Books for Young Readers.Underwood, D., & Chan, I. (Illustrator). (2019). Finding kindness. New York, NY:
Henry Holt and Company.Perkins, M., & Palacios, S. (Illustrator). (2019). Between us and abuela. New York,
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux.
Young Adult Book ReviewsBaron, C. (2019). All of me. New York, NY: Feiwel and Friends.
Pullman, P. (2019). The book of dust: The secret commonwealth (The book of dust
Vol. 2). New York, NY: Knopf Books for Young Readers.Searle, S. W. (2019). Sincerely, Harriet. Minneapolis, MN: Graphic Universe.
Goo, M. (2019). Somewhere only we know. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Inc.Hale, S., & Pham, L. (Illustrator). (2019). Best friends. New York, NY: First Second.
Wang, J., & Pien, L. (Illustrator). (2019). Stargazing. New York, NY: First Second.
Perry, R. (2019). Last of the name. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books.
Anderson, M. T. (2019). Landscape with invisible hand. Somerville, MA: Candlewick
Press.Burkhart, K. (2018). Honor Code. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group.
Sky, E. M., & Brown, S. The navigator. Carrollton, GA: Trash Dogs Media.
Poetry“The Duality of Education and the complexity of Being Literate”
Visual ArtIdiom Artwork Project, Compiled by Krista Dean, Art Teacher at Chase Street Elementary, Athens, GA
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Creating Our Own Spaces
Vol. 15 No. 2 (2019)Editor's Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Creating Our Own Spaces
Research Articles
Wrestling with Competency and Everyday Literacies in School
Men Writing Their Lives: Situating the Authoring Processes of Zinesters
“We’re Rural Not Dumb”: An Examination of Literacy Sponsorhip
Voices from the Field
Academic Book Reviews
McCann, T. M., & Knapp, J. V. (2019). Teaching on solid ground:
Knowledge foundations for the teacher of English. New York, NY: The Guilford
Press.Goering, C. Z. & Thomas, P. L. (Eds.) (2018). Critical media literacy
and fake news in post-truth America. Leiden, NL: Brill Sense.Williams, W. R. (2018). Listen to the poet: Writing, performance, and
community in youth spoken word poetry. Amherst, MA: University of
Massachusetts Press.Lysaker, J. T. (2019). Before words: Wordless picture books and the
development of reading in young children. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Witte, S., Latham, D. & Gross, M. (Eds). (2019). Literacy engagement
through peritextual analysis. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.Winn, M. T. (2018). Justice on both sides: Transforming education
Picture Book Reviews
through restorative justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.Javaherbin, M., & Yankey, L. (Illustrator). (2019). My grandma and me. Somerville,
MA: Candlewick Press.Ylla-Somers C., & Pommaux, Y. (Illustrator). (2019). All of us: A young people's
history of the world (A. Lehmann (Trans.). New York, NY: NYR Children's
Collection.Sharma, N. P., & Amaya, A. (Illustrator). (2018). The tomato flood. New Delhi, IN:
Tota Books.Charlip, R. (2019). Arm in arm. New York, NY: The New York Review Children’s
Collection.Jay, A. (2017). Looking for yesterday. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Brown, C. (2019). Up verses down: Poems, paintings, and serious nonsense. New York,
Young Adult Book Reviews
NY: Henry Holt and Company.Levy, J. S. (2019). Seventh grade vs. the galaxy. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing
Group.Lockington, M. J. (2019). For black girls like me. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux.Cheng, J. (2017). See you in the cosmos. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers.
Appelhans, L. (2019). The manic pixie dream boy improvement project. Minneapolis: MN:
Poetry
Carolrhoda Lab.“At This Very Moment” & “The Crasher”
“The Best Way to Enjoy Fish” & “The Trash”
“The World We Live In–Recrimination”
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Breaking Down Walls: Teaching and Learning Through and Across Boundaries
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019)Editor's IntroductionEditor’s Introduction: Breaking Down Walls: Teaching and Learning Through and Across Boundaries
Conference Keynote Article and Videos
Some Parallels Between Written and Visual Literacy Learning
Video: Beautiful Oops!: Some Parallels Between Written and Visual Literacy Learning
Video: Laughing Across the Borders: Playful Possibilities in Teaching and Inquiry
Academic Articles
Research ArticlesTrusting Students’ Voices in Critical English Education
Issues of Validity, Subjectivity, and Reflexivity in Multimodal Literacy Research and Analysis
“I Feel Normal Here”: The Social Functions of a Book Club in a Residential Recovery Program
Breaking Binaries: #BlackGirlMagic and the Black Ratchet Imagination
Voices from the Field
Loud and Clear: Using the Graphic Novel to Challenge the Status Quo in Content Area Literacy
Academic Book Reviews
Mirra, N. (2018). Educating for empathy: Literacy learning and civic engagement. New York,
NY: Teachers College Press.Goble, E. (2017). Visual phenomenology: Encountering the sublime through images. New
York, NY: Routledge.Goldberg, G. (2019). Teach like yourself: How authentic teaching transforms our students and
ourselves. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Makalela, L. (2018). Shifting lenses: Multilanguaging, decolonisation and education in the
Global South. Cape Town, South Africa: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS).Kay, M. (2018). Not light, but fire: How to lead meaningful race
conversations in the classroom. Portland, ME: Stenhouse.You, X. (Ed.). (2018). Transnational writing education: Theory,
history and practice. New York, NY: Routledge.Boyd, A. S. (2017). Social justice literacies in the English classroom:
Teaching practice in action. New York, NY: Teachers College
Record.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
SpotlightInterview with Author and Illustrator Hyewon Yum
Picturebook ReviewsCumming, P., & Devris, S. (2017). Boy. New York, NY: Scholastic.
McCarthy, J., & Benson, P. (2017). The stone bird. London, UK:
Andersen Press.McCullough, J. (2018). Blood, water, paint. New York, NY: Dutton
Books for Young Readers.Avecedo, E. (2017). Poet X. New York, NY: HarperCollins
Ahmed, S. (2018). Love, Hate, and Other Filters. New York, NY: Soho
TeensPoetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Poetry“After reading Number the Stars”
“Twenty-Six Letters” & “Fear of Writing”
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Energizing and Resonant Possibilities
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2018)Editor's Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Energizing and Resonant PossibilitiesAcademic Articles
Research Articles
Creating a Third Space through Intertextuality: Using Children’s Literature to Develop Prospective Teachers’ Critical Literacy
This is What We Do: Emphasizing Discipline-Specific Literacy Practices in Teacher Education
Literate Identity Development in First Grade: A Cross-Case Analysis of Students with Strong and Emerging Decoding Skills
Valuing Students’ Responses to Implement a Social Justice Pedagogy: A Descriptive Case Study
Castle”ing” Whiteness: White Youth and the Racial ImaginationVoices from the Field
“But Isn’t the Teacher Supposed to Tell Us?”: Drawing Out Transactional Reading Processes Through Transmediation
Engaging Preservice Teachers with Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Three Model Lessons for Teacher EducatorsAcademic Book Reviews
Yoshihara, R. (2017). The socially responsible feminist EFL classroom: A
Japanese perspective on identities, beliefs and practices. Blue Ridge
Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters.Beers, K., & Probst, R.E. (2017). Disrupting thinking: Why how we
read matters. New York, NY: Scholastic.Orellana, M. F. (2016). Immigrant children in transcultural
spaces: Language, learning, and love. New York: Routledge.Graves, M. F. (2016). The Vocabulary Book: Learning and Instruction (2nd ed.). New
York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Newkirk, T. (2017). (Embarrassment) and the emotional underlife of learning.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.Ryan, C.L., & Hermann-Wilmarth, J.M. (2018). Reading the rainbow:
LGBTQ-inclusive literacy instruction in the elementary classroom.
New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Poetter, T. S., & Waldrop, K. (Eds.). (2015). Curriculum windows:
What curriculum theorists of the 1970s can teach us about schools and
society today. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.Sarigianides, S. T., Petrone, R., & Lewis, M. A. (2017). Rethinking the
“adolescent” in adolescent literacy. Urbana, IL: National Council of
Teachers of English.Zaidi, R., & Rowsell, J. (Eds.). (2017). Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times.
New York, NY: Routledge.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Picture Book ReviewsHoward, A. (2017). Dinosaur Empire!: Journey through the Mesozoic
Era. New York, NY: Amulet Books.Byers, Grace (2018). I am enough. New York, NY: HarperCollins
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Poetry:
“For the Man Who Loved Dalí and Pink Floyd,” “Printmaking,” and “Uniambic”
Visual Art:
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Reframing Pedagogical Practices and Literacy Research: Teaching to the Future
Vol. 14 No. 1 (2018)Editor's Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Reframing Pedagogical Practice and ResearchScholarly Articles
Conference Keynote Articles and videos
Toward a Theory of the Dark Fantastic: The Role of Racial Difference in Young Adult Speculative Fiction and Media Video: The Dark Fantastic featuring Ebony Thomas Video: Reframing Anti-Bullying Education featuring Little Rock Nine Civil Rights Icon Elizabeth Eckford, Eurydice Stanley, and Grace Stanley
Review of The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High
…And a Child Shall Lead Them…
A Southern White Man’s Lessons on How to Grow Up RacistResearch Articles
Teaching for Deep Learning in a Second-Grade Literacy Classroom
“We Don’t Wanna Strait-Jacket You”: Community, Curriculum and Critical Literacy in Urban Debate
What is Adapted in Youth Adaptations?: A Critical Comparative Content Analysis of Military Memoirs Repackaged as Young Adult Literature
Interrupting Cultural Deficiency: Illustrating Curricular Benefits of Plurilingualism in a Kenyan Classroom
A Different Kind of Sponsorship: The Influence of Graphic Narrative Composing on ELA Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions of Writing and Literacy Instruction
Voices from the Field Exploding the Wor(l)d: Using Challenging Texts to Reveal the Metacognitive Conversation with Pre-service Teachers
Ready Learner One: Creating An Oasis For Virtual/Online Education
#Twitter: A Pedagogical Tool in the High School Classroom for Your Consideration
But She Didn’t Scream: A Framework for Teaching About Sexual Assault In Young Adult LiteratureAcademic Book Reviews
Dobbs, C. L., Ippolito, J., and Charner-Laird, M. (2017). Investigating
Disciplinary Literacy: A Framework for Collaborative Professional
Learning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.Hamel, F.L. (2017). Choice and agency in the writing workshop: Developing
engaged writers, grades 4-6. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Nieto, S. (2018). Language, culture, and teaching: Critical perspectives (3rd ed).
New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Madison, E. (2015). Newsworthy: Cultivating critical thinkers, readers, and
writers in the language arts classroom. New York, NY: Teachers College
Press.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Spotlight Interview with Nadeen Al Rifaei and Ean Fulks about their experience of writing reading, writing, and publishing in JoLLE together. Picture Book ReviewsMessner, K. (2017). Over and under the pond. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books.
Rubbino, S. (2017). A walk in New York. Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Ørbeck-Nilssen, C. (2016). Why am I here?. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Books
for Young Readers.Lamothe, M. (2017). This is how we do it. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books.
Dean, J. (2016). Pete the cat: Snow Daze. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Young Adult Book ReviewsMcGoran, J. (2017). Spliced. New York, NY: Holiday House.
Deacon, A. (2016). Geis: A matter of life and death. New York, NY: Nobrow Press.
Carmack, C. (2018). Roar. New York, NY: Tor Teen.
Senghor, S. (2016). Writing my wrongs: Life, death, and redemption in an American
prison. New York, NY: Convergent Books.Sky, E.M., & Brown, S. (2017). The Wendy. Franklin, GA: Trash Dogs Media.
Ahmed, S. (2018). Love, hate, & other filters. New York, NY: Soho Teen.
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
Poetry:
“No Rubric,” “Poetry Reading in Room 415,” and “Aesthetic Experience”
“I Never Realized ‘Violence’ Rhymed with ‘Silence’ Until” and “The Sacred Backwards”
“Can’t,” “There Would Be Music,” and “A Child, Quite Alone”
Fiction:
“Tales from an American Theme Park: A One-Act”
Art:
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Engaging Conversations
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017)Editor's Introduction Editor’s Introduction: Engaging ConversationsAcademic Articles
Featured Articles
Reciprocity of Student and Teacher Discourse Practices in Monologically and Dialogically Organized Text Discussion
Mapping Dialogic Tendencies: A Four-quadrant Method for Analyzing and Teaching Whole-Class Discussion
Disrupting the Dominant Narrative: Beginning English Teachers’ Use of Young Adult Literature and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Preservice Teachers’ Envisioning and Enactment of Content-Area Literacy Instruction in Elementary Classrooms
Adult Functional Literacy: Prominent Themes, Glaring Omissions, and Future Directions
Effects of Educational Games on Sight Word Reading Achievement and Student Motivation
Creepers and Supporters: A Qualitative Analysis of the Practices of Beginning Educators in a Virtual Teacher CommunityVoices from the Field
The Multiple Identities and Literacies of Black Girlhood: A Conversation About Creating Spaces for Black Girl Voices
Deconstructing “Otherness” Through Conversations and Writing in a Biliteracy Classroom: A Book Project Approach to Building Diverse Communities of LearnersAcademic Book Reviews
Baglieri, S. (2017). Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom: Critical
Practices for Embracing Diversity in Education. (2nd ed.) New York:
Routledge.Short, K. G., Johnson, H., Mathis, J. (Eds.). (2017). Critical content analysis of
children’s and young adult literature: Reframing perspective. London, UK:
Routledge.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Spotlight Interview with Children’s and Young Adult experts Hannah DeCamp and Will Walton on Small Presses and Independent Publishers Elementary School BookSutton, L. P. (2016). I Love You Americanly. Tulsa, OK: Kane Miller.
Sanna, F. (2016). The Journey. London, England: Flying Eye Books.
Alvarez, L. (2016). Nightlights. New York, NY: Nobrow Press.
Harnett, K. (2017). Ivy and the Lonely Raincloud. London, England: Flying Eye
Books.Brown, C. (2016). On the Space Station. Tulsa, OK: Kane Miller.
Middle School BooksAnderson, M. T. (2017). Landscape with Invisible Hand. Sommerville, MA:
Candlewick PressGratz, A. (2017). Refuge. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
DeVita, J. (2015). The Silenced. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.
High School BooksHealy, L. (2016). How to Survive in the North. New York, NY: Nobrow Press.
Dunkle, E. & Dunkle, C. B. (2016). Elena Vanishing: A Memoir. San Francisco, CA:
Chronicle Books.Gough, E. (2017). Get It Together, Delilah!. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books.
Poetry, Fiction, & Bisual Arts
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Out of the Box and Into the Margins
Vol. 13 No. 1 (2017)Editors' Introduction
Exploring the Space Outside the Box and Inside the Margins
Voices from the Field
Critical Literacy and Transgender Topics in an Upper Elementary Classroom: A Portrait of Possibility
Featured Articles
Representations of Adoption in Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Young Adults
Academic Book Reviews
Brozo, W. G., Moorman, G., & Meyer, C. (2014). WHAM! Teaching
with Graphic Novels Across the Curriculum. New York, NY:
Teachers College Press.Gorski, P. (2013). Reaching and teaching students in poverty: Strategies for
erasing the opportunity gap. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Mathis, W & Trujillo, T. (Eds.). (2016). Learning from the Federal Market-
Based Reforms: Lessons for the Every Student Succeeds Act. Charlotte,NC: Information Age Publishing.Paris, D., & Winn, M. T. (Eds.). (2014). Humanizing research: Decolonizing
qualitative inquiry with youth and communities. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.Whitaker, T., Zoul, J., & Casas, J. (2015). What connected educators do
differently. New York, NY: Routledge.Marinak, B. A., Gambrell, L. B., & Mazzoni, S. A. (2013). Maximizing
motivation for literacy learning: Grades K-6. New York, NY: The Guilford
Press.Wolter, D. L. (2015). Reading upside down: Identifying and addressing
opportunity gaps in literacy instruction. New York, NY: Teachers College
Press.Sangster, M. (Eds). (2015). Challenging perceptions in primary education:
Exploring issues in practice. London, UK: Bloomsbury.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Local Author Spotlight
Elementary School Books
Wilhelm, D. (2016). Treasure Town. Weybridge, VT: Long Stride Books.
Angleberger, T., & Bell, C. (2016). Inspector Flytrap. New York, NY: Harry N.
Abrams.Angleberger, T., & Bell, C. (2016). Inspector flytrap in the president’s mane is
missing. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.Middle School Books
Farrell, M.C. (2016). Fannie never flinched: One woman’s courage in the struggle for
American labor union rights. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.Angleberger, T., & Dellinger, P. (2016). Fuzzy. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.
High School Books
Sky, E.M., & Brown, S. (2017). The intuitives. Franklin, GA: Trash Dogs Media LLC.
Hardinge, F. (2016). The lie tree. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.
poetry & Art
Sarah’s First Visit to Shanghai
International Student Learns about American Chinese Food
Manifesto: The Mad Teacher Liberation Front
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Intentional Meaning: Exploring How We Read and Write Our Worlds
Vol. 12 No. 2 (2016)Editors' Introduction
Intentional Meaning: Exploring How We Read and Write Our WorldsAcademic Articles
Voices from the Field
Ctrl F: A Scholar’s Tips for Delving into the World of Creative Writing
The Trouble with Niceness: How a Preference for Pleasantry Sabotages Culturally Responsive Teacher Preparation
Featured Articles Living and Learning in the Here-and-Now: Critical Inquiry in Literacy Teacher Education
Beyond Mirrors and Windows: A Critical Content Analysis of Latino Children’s Books
Empowering the Foreign Language Learner Through Critical Literacies DevelopmentAcademic Book Reviews
Hill, M.L. (2016). Nobody: Casualties of America’s war on the vulnerable, from
Ferguson to Flint and beyond. New York, NY: Atria BooksPearson, P. D., & Hiebert, E. H. (Eds.). (2015). Research-based practices for
teaching Common Core literacy. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Fu, D. & Matoush, M. (2015). Focus on literacy. Oxford key concepts for the
language classroom. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.Mack, N. (2015). Engaging writers with multigenre research projects: A
teacher’s guide. 1- 128. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Fisher, P., Bates, A., & Gurvitz, D. J. (2014). The complete guide to tutoring
struggling readers: Mapping interventions to purpose and CCSS. New
York, NY: Teachers College Press.Landsman, J., Salcedo, R., & Gorski, P. (2015). Voices for diversity and social
justice: A literary education anthology. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.Bezemer, J., & Kress, G. (2016). Multimodality, learning and communication: A
social semiotic frame. London, UK: Routledge.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Elementary School BookBiggs, B. (2016). Tinyville Town Gets to Work. New York, NY: Abrams
Appleseed.Robinson, F. (2016). Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First
Middle School Books
Computer Programmer. New York, NY:Abram’s Books for Young
Readers.Lee, J.M. (2016). Jim Henson’s Shadows of the Dark Crystal. New York, NY:
Grosset & Dunlap.Grau, S. (2016). The Boy with 17 Senses. New York, NY: Amulet Books.
High School BooksWagner, L.R. (2015). Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti. New York,
NY: Amulet Books.Turtschaninoff, M. (2016). The Red Abbey Chronicles Maresi. New York
City, NY: Amulet Books.Poetry & Arts
A Writing Lesson
The Poet
When You’re Not Smarter Than A Fifth Grader
Keep
Let Us Feast at Poetry’s Table
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Community Engaged Literacies
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2016)Editor's Introduction
Lived Words and Worlds: Community Engaged LiteraciesResearch Articles
Reading and Writing with a Public Purpose: Fostering Middle School Students’ Academic and Critical Community Literacies through Debate
Collaborating in the Community: Fostering Identity and Creative Expression in an Afterschool Program
Teaching Multiple Literacies and Critical Literacy to Pre-Service Teachers through Children’s-Literature-Based Engagements
Conflicted Worlds of Multilingual Communities in Africa: Literacy Tangled in Words
Generational, Cultural, and Linguistic Integration for Literacy Learning and Teaching in Uganda: Pedagogical Possibilities, Challenges, and Lessons from one NGO
Enhancing Academic Investment through Home — School Connections and Building on ELL Students’ Scholastic Funds of Knowledge
A Case Study of Teacher Reflection: Examining Teacher Participation in a Video-based Professional Learning CommunityAcademic Book Reviews
Nieto, S. (2015). Brooklyn dreams: My life in public education.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.Tyler, A. (2012). Cognitive linguistics and second language learning:
Theoretical basics and experimental evidence. New York:
Routledge.Bass, W. L., & Sibberson, F. (2015). Digital reading: What’s essential in grades
3-8. Urbana, IL: NCTE.McCann, T. M., D’Angelo, R., Galas, N., & Greska, M., (2015). Literacy and
history in action: Immersive approaches to disciplinary thinking, grades 5-12.
New York: Teachers College Press.Garcia, A., & O’Donnell-Allen, C. (2015). Pose, wobble, flow: A culturally
proactive approach to literacy instruction. New York: Teacher’s College
Press.Ayers, R., and Ayers, W. (2014). Teaching the taboo: Courage and
imagination in the classroom. New York, NY: Teachers
College Press.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Elementary School BookMitchell, M. (2015). The magician’s hat. Athens, GA: Read With Malcolm,
Elementary to Middle School Books
Inc.Bell, C. (2014). El deafo. New York, NY: Abrams Publishing.
Trousdale, A. M. (2015). Cotton patch rebel: The story of Clarence Jordan.
Middle School Books
San Jose, CA: Resource Publications.Martin, A. (2014). Rain, reign. New York, NY: Feiwel & Friends.
Young, J. (2015). Promise. Ann Arbor, MI: Sleeping Bear Press.
High School BooksKeyser, A. (2015). The way back from broken. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda
Lab, a division of Lerner Publishing Company.Sommer, B. & Tilghman, N. H. (2015). A 52-hertz whale. Minneapolis, MN:
Lerner Publishing Group.Poetry & Arts
“you ask me how”
“Brother Book Bouncing–An O-bit”
“But I’m Not a Reading Teacher” “The Taxi Driver’s Daughter”
“Thoughts to Words” “Les Mots Justes”
“Why Don’t You Understand?” -
Reimagining the Field
Vol. 11 No. 2 (2015)Editor's Introduction
“Editor’s Introduction: Reimagining the Field: Pushing Back, Reconsidering Text, & Cultivating Identities”Research Articles
“A Qualitative Analysis of High School Students’ Engagement with Poetry and Social Justice”
“’It Happened to Me’: Third Grade Students Write and Draw Towards Critical Perspectives”
“Getting Close to Close Reading: Teachers Making Instructional Shifts in Early Literacy”
“Embodying and Programming a ‘Constellation’ of Multimodal Literacy Practices: Computational Thinking, Creative Movement, Biology, & Virtual Environment Interactions”
“Representing Reading: An Analysis of Professional Development Book Covers”
“A Heritage Language Learner’s Literacy Practices in a Korean Language Course in a U.S. University: From a Multiliteracies Perspective.”
“Learning in/through Collaborative Poetry Translation: Documenting the Impact of Poetry Inside-out with High School Aged English Language Learners”
“What Teachers Bring: The Intellectual Resources of Adolescent Literacy Educators in an Era of Standardization”
“Crossing Blocked Thresholds: Three Stories of Identity, Embodied Literacy, and Participatory Education”Voices from the Field
“Reading, Writing, and Designing: Getting Students on the Path to Thinking like Designers”Academic Book Reviews
Armstrong, S. (2011). Information literacy: Navigating & evaluating today’s
media. (2nd ed.). Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.Bligh, C. (2014). The silent experiences of young bilingual learners: A
sociocultural study into the silent period. Rotterdam, the Netherlands:
Springer.Greene, S. (2013). Race, community, and urban schools: Partnering with
African American families. New York, NY: Teacher’s College Press.Morrell, E. & Scherff, L. (2015). New directions in teaching English:
Reimagining teaching, teacher education, and research. New
York: Roman & Littlefield.Skerrett, A. (2015). Teaching transnational youth: Literacy and education in a
changing world. New York, NY: Teacher’s College Press.Majors, Y. J. (2015). Shoptalk: Lessons in teaching from an African
American hair salon. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Perez, A. H. (2015). Out of darkness. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing
Group.Stiefvater, M., Gratton, T., & Yovanoff, B. (2015). Anatomy of curiosity.
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group.Mateo, J. M. (2014). Migrant. New York, NY: Abrams Publishing.
John, J. & Barnett, M. (2015). The terrible two. New York, NY: Abrams
Publishing.Roberson, R., & Shannon, D. (2015). Hiawatha and the peacemaker. New
York, NY: Abrams Publishing.Poetry & Arts
“Civilized Residue”
“Sensation”
“Poems While Proctoring-‘You Have Five Minutes Remaining in This Section”
“Tips for Visiting China”
“first spring (Baltimore is burning)”
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Embodied and Participatory Literacies
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015)Editor's Introduction
Rethinking “Cookie Cutter” Literacy PracticesFeatured Articles
Multimodal Play and Adolescents: Notes on Noticing Laughter
“The Power of Our Words and Flesh”: An Experienced Literacy Coach’s Love Letter to Incoming Educators About the Transformational Roles of Relationships and the Body in LearningResearch Articles
Trading Spaces: An Educator’s Ethnographic Exploration of an Adolescents’ Online Role-Play
Spatial Stories with Nomadic Narrators: Affect, Snapchat, and ‘Feeling’ Embodiment in Youth Mobile Composing
What are the Disciplinary Literacies in Dance and Drama in the Elementary Grades?
Participatory Literacy Learning in an African Context: Perspectives from the Ombaderuku Primary School in the Arua District, Uganda
Testimoniando en Nepantla: Using Testimonio as a Pedagogical Tool for Exploring Embodied Literacies and BilingualismVoices from the Field
“Who are our mockingbirds?” Participatory Literacies in a Community-wide Reading ProgramAcademic Book Reviews
Katz, M. (Eds.) (2013). Moving ideas: Multimodality and embodied learning in
communities and schools. New York, NY: Peter Lang.Jocson, K. (Eds.). (2013). Cultural transformations: Youth and pedagogies of
possibility. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Leavy, P. (2013). American circumstance. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense
Publishers.Four Arrows (Jacobs, D. T.), England-Aytes, K., Cajete, G., Fisher, M., R.,
Mann, B. A., Mcgaa, E., & Sorensen, M. (2013). Teaching truly: A
curriculum to indigenize mainstream education. New York, NY: Peter
Lang Publishing.Lynch, P. (2013). After pedagogy: The experience of teaching. Urbana, IL:
CCCC/NCTE.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Giles, G. (2014). Girls like us. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Hidier, T. D. (2014). Bombay blues. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Dunkle, E. & Dunkle, C. (2015). Elena vanishing. San Francisco, CA:
Chronicle Books.Walton, W. (2015). Anything Could Happen. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Novak, B.J. (2014). The book with no pictures. New York, NY: Dial Books.
Picard, M. (2014). Jim Curious: A voyage to the heart of the sea in 3-D vision.
New York, NY: Abrams.Poetry & Arts
The poetry collection “Spinning Straw Into Gold”
“Blowing and Bursting Bubbles”
“The 451 App”
“Burning Hell” and “Dream”
“Benjamin”
“Failing Students”
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Questioning Our Practices for a More Hopeful Future
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2014)Editor's Introduction
Questioning Our Practices for a More Hopeful FutureResearch Articles
I Hope it Still Counts as Reading: The Cultural Production of Reading(s), Social Relations and Values in a Research Interview
Funds of (Difficult) Knowledge and the Affordances of Multimodality: The Case of Victor
Social Justice through Literacy: Integrating Digital Video Cameras in Reading Summaries and Responses
Labeled Reading Disabled and “Doing Reading”: One College Student’s Reading History
“So, Like, What Now?”: Making Identity Visible for Pre-Service Teachers
Experiential Learning and Literacy: Preservice Teachers’ Perspectives
Experience is the Best Tool for Teachers: Blogging to Provide Preservice Educators with Authentic Teaching Opportunities
Literature Discussion: Encouraging Reading Interest and Comprehension in Struggling Middle School ReadersVoices from the Field
When Guided Reading Isn’t Working: Strategies for Effective InstructionAcademic Book Reviews
Fisher, D., Frey, N., & Lapp, D. (2012). Text complexity: Raising rigor in
reading. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.Oczkus, L.D. (2012). Best ever literacy survival tips: 72 lessons you can’t teach
without. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.Campos, D. (2012). Educating Latino boys: An asset-based approach.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.Chappell, S. V., & Faltis, C. J. (2013). The arts and emergent bilingual youth:
Building culturally responsive, critical and creative education in school
and community contexts. New York, NY: Routledge.Dunn, P.A. (2001). Talking, sketching, moving: Multiple literacies in the
teaching of writing. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann.Podesva, R. J., & Sharma, D. (Eds). (2013). Research methods in linguistics.
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
Elementary Level BooksRoberts, J. (2014). The smallest girl in the smallest grade. Illus. by Christian
Robinson. New York: NY: Putnam Juvenile Press.Javaherbin M. (2013). Soccer star. Illus. by Renalto Alarcao. Somerville, MA:
Candlewick PressStavans, I. (2013). Golemito. Illus. by Teresa Villegas. Montgomery, AL: New
Elementary to Middle Grades Books
South Books.Bowker, P. (2014). Playing pro football. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing
Middle Grades Books
Group.Abirached, Z. (2014). I remember Beirut. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing
Group.Burg, A (2013). Serafina’s promise. New York: Scholastic Press
Woodson, J. (2014). brown girl dreaming. New York, NY: Nancy Paulsen
High School Books
Books.Farizan, S. (2013). If you could be mine. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Young
Readers.Poetry & Arts
“I Can Climb That”
“/The clouds were pretending to be clouds/and/Goat gone feral comes in where the fence is open…/or How to Get Your Poem Published in The New Yorker”
“Thick” and “Rock Gold”
“What I Didn’t Learn in Reading in High School, I Try to Teach My Students Now” and “My Canon”
“Out of the Box”
“Reading Neruda”
“Communication in a Foreign Land"
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Literacy and/for Social Justice
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2014)Editors Introduction
Shelton, S. A. (2014). Editor’s Introduction. Journal of Language and Literacy Education [Online], 10(1), i-iv.
Retrieved from http://jolle.coe.uga.eduResearch Articles
Redefining our understandings...
When School Literacy and School Discipline Practices Intersect: Why Schools Punish Student Writing
Adolescent Perspectives on Authentic Writing Instruction
The Power of Applying Reimagined/Redefined Literacy in Classrooms
Creating a Critical Literacy Milieu in a Kindergarten Classroom
“We Gotta Change First”: Racial Literacy in a High School English Classroom
Students with Learning Disabilities in an Inclusive Writing Classroom
Multiliteracies in the classroom: Confronting the Reality of the First Year of Teaching
The Power of Applying Reimagined/Redefined Literacy Beyond the Classroom
De/colonizing Preservice Teacher Education: Theatre of the Academic Absurd
Teaching Under Policy Cascades: Common Core and Literacy Instruction
Book Reviews
Miller, sj, Burns, D. B., & Johnson, T. S. (Eds.). (2013). Generation Bullied 2.0:
Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Our Most Vulnerable Students. New York:
Peter Lang Publishing.Warner, M. L. & Lovell, J. H. (Eds.). (2014). Teaching Writing Grades 7-12 in an Era of
Assessment: Passion and Practice. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.Horn, J., and Wilburn, D. (2013). The Mismeasure of Education. Charlotte, NC:
Information Age Publishing, Inc.Kirkland, David E (2013). A search past silence: The literacy of young black men. New
York: Teachers College Press.McLaughlin, M. (2012) Guided Comprehension for English Learners. Newark, DE:
International Reading Association.Miller, D., & Kelley, S. (2014). Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer’s Keys to
Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.Poetry and Art
“Language Lessons: Poems from Rwanda”
“Conference Room on March 1st”
Casting a Long ShadowPersonal Ad for Jim & Anather Personal Ad (After Allen Ginsberg)
Scholars Speak Out
Bennett, S. V. (2014, June). Voices: A song for the children.
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JoLLE
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2013)JoLLE Editorial Board, 2013-14Principal Editor
Stephanie Anne SheltonProduction Editor
Michelle M. FalterCommunications Editor
Mandie B. DunnBook Review Editor
Deavours HallManaging Editor
Meghan B. ThorntonPoetry and Art Editor
Susan J. BleyleEditorial Board Members
Chelsey M. BahlmannKaren Kleppe Graham
Melissa Mallino
Xiaodi Zhou
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Peter SmagorinskyEditor's Introduction
Research Articles
Invisibility: An Unintended Consequence of Standards, Tests, and Mandates
Pedagogies of Resiliency and Hope in Response to the Criminalization of Latin@ Students
Viewing as a Cultural Tool in the Construction of Meaning with Expository Texts for Young Bilinguals
Life Inside the Hive: Creating a Space for Literacy to Grow
Understanding the Text Genre Preferences of Third-Grade Readers
Voices from the Field
Digital Video Cameras for Brainstorming and Outlining: The Process and Potential
Book Reviews
Furhken, C. (2012). What every middle school teacher needs to know about reading
tests (from someone who has written them). Portland, ME: Stenhouse.Walpole, S. & McKenna, M.C. (2013). The literacy coach’s handbook: A guide to
research-based practice (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.Rappolt-Schlichtmann, G., Daley, S. G., & Rose, T. L. (Eds.). (2012). A Research
reader in universal design for learning. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.Jordan, Jay. (Ed.) (2012) Redesigning Composition for Multilingual Realities.
Conference on College Composition and Communication of the National Council
of Teachers of English.Babcock, R.D., Manning, K., Rogers, T., Goff, C., & McCain, A. (2012). A synthesis of
qualitative studies of writing center tutoring 1983-2006. New York: Peter Lang
Publishing, Inc.Kinloch, V. (2012). Crossing boundaries: Teaching and learning with urban youth. New
York: Teachers College Press.Poetry and Art
“Ars Poetica” & “Mother Tongue”
The Prospect of Honey: Synergistic Theories Brimming with Potential
Cartoon about Language, Using the Metaphor of Blind Men Touching an Elephant
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Activist Literacies: Inspire, Engage, Create, Transform
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2013)Editor
Lindy L. JohnsonProduction Editor
Stephanie Anne SheltonForum & Conference Reflections Editor
Tobie BassBook Review Editor
Deavours HallBoard Members
Joanna Anglin
Tobie Bass
Sheila Brennan
Gabriela Del Villar
Karen K. Graham
Xiaoli Hong
Stephanie P. Jones
Shim LewFaculty Advisor
Peter SmagorinskyEditor's Introduction
Forum
Features
Book Reviews
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JoLLE
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2012)Editor
Lindy L. JohnsonProduction Editor
Stephanie Anne SheltonBoard Members
Yury Almetev
Tobie Bass
Gabriela Del Villar
Deavours Hall
Shim Lew
Monique Newsome
Stephanie Anne SheltonFaculty Advisor
Peter SmagorinskyEditor's Introduction
JoLLE Forum: High Stakes Testing and Teacher Evaluations
Rotten to the (Common) Core - James Arnold
The Testing Judgement - Marion Brady
My Struggles to Be Heard: A Principal's Perspective on Education Reform - Harry Leonardatos
The Disconnect Between Standards and Assessment - Elizabeth A. Kahn
Research Articles
Voices from the Field
Book Reviews
