Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017): Engaging Conversations
Academic Articles
Featured Articles
Reciprocity of Student and Teacher Discourse Practices in Monologically and Dialogically Organized Text DiscussionMapping 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 Community
Voices from the Field
The Multiple Identities and Literacies of Black Girlhood: A Conversation About Creating Spaces for Black Girl VoicesDeconstructing “Otherness” Through Conversations and Writing in a Biliteracy Classroom: A Book Project Approach to Building Diverse Communities of Learners
Academic 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 Book
Sutton, 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 Press
Gratz, A. (2017). Refuge. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
DeVita, J. (2015). The Silenced. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.
High School Books
Healy, 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
