@drtownsend
Professor of Literacy Studies at UNR 📚 Founder of NV Adolescent Literacy Network. Always thinking about adolescent lit, vocabulary, comprehension, and multilingual learners. Also always thinking about mountain sports 🚵♂️⛷️
Heading to #LRA2025? Join us at the Word Study: Phonics, Spelling, & Vocabulary Study Group - a great set of talks! Speakers: Julie Washington, Young-Suk Kim, Jazmyn Jones, Zuowei Wang, Tenaha O'Reilly, Margaret Oswood Opatz, Darl Kiernan. Wed, Thurs, Fri, 12:00 - 1:00, Mezz. Floor, Melrose 1.
This was a really fun podcast conversation - we talked about the best ways to help secondary students learn the important vocabulary they need for school and beyond. www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests/diann...
I'm so excited to share this special issue of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. A great set of articles (all free!) on helping adolescents develop the foundational literacy skills they need to pursue their goals in and out of school. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19362706...
Those look AMAZING!!!
Literacy friends! If you’re going to #LRA2024, come to the Word Study study group each day (12:00 - 1:00) for outstanding talks and great discussion on word consciousness, morphology, vocabulary (with a critical lens), foundational skills, & professional learning.