Meaning emerges not through correspondences between the flat marks [of print] but through the interactions of human and nonhuman cognizers distributed through the environment
- Katherine Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer (2005, p. 212)
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reading & writing connection
Book Review: The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension By: Art Peterson
reader engagement & motivation
Book Review: Lifers: Learning from Adolescent At-Risk Readers by Pamela Mueller
Book Review: Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Members of the Thinking and Development team of the African American Learners Project compiled this bibliography. In addition to resources specifically on African American learners, the bibliography provides a short list of resources for writing teachers on the achievement gap.
This bibliography has an introduction that describes the field and contextualizes key sources as they relate to the teaching of writing.
This bibliography, compiled by Ann Healy–Raymond and Kathy Rowland, focuses on how poverty affects the education of rural students, with a focus on the implications for literacy instruction. The authors' excellent introduction to the bibliography helps situate this research in National Writing Project contexts.
Teaching Writing: Diversity/Equity issues (NWP Resources)
Boys & Literacy
Other reading resources: