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2013

Want to be a Better Reader? Then Read!

Jessica Ramos
Keywords: Book logs, English, graphing, Increased reading ability, Literature, Middle, Probability / Statistics

Enhancing Beginning Reading Skills Through Poetry

Pamela Elters
Keywords: literacy, poetry, reading skills, Shel Silverstein

The Ringing of Bells: Joyful Sounds of Poetry

Lynn Gourinski Fahr
Keywords: American Literature, listeining skills, poetry, writing skills

Close Reading of Modern Poetry: A Study in Form and Content

Julie Mikolajewski
Keywords: close reading, content, form, modern poetry, poetry

2012

“We got to use what we got.” How Birmingham’s Children Became Foot Soldiers on the Front Lines in the Fight for Civil Rights Birmingham, Alabama 1963

Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: Alabama, Birmingham, Black History month, civil rights, segregation

The African-American Graphic Novel: Discovering, Examining and Creating Graphic Narratives of Racialized Experience

Tara Ann Carter
Keywords: civil rights, graphic novel, race

“I Even Encountered Myself”: Exploring Identity Development in Literature During the Middle School Years

Erin Bloom
Keywords: Identity, Literature, short stories

Fly Away North: African-American Short Stories of the Great Migration

Bonnee L. Breese
Keywords: Great Migration, short stories, US distinction, US migration

African American Short Stories: Author Studies for Elementary Level Students

Sue A. Christmas
Keywords: African American stories, Faith Ringgold, Jacqueline Woodson, Julius Lester, short stories

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: African American Short Stories in the Jazz Tradition

Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: African American short stories, Jazz, short stories

Teaching American African Males Using Short Stories

Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: African American males, African American short stories, short stories

Short Story Encounters: Pathos in Action in African-American Fiction

Stacia Parker
Keywords: African American fiction, pathos, short stories

Teaching Characterization and Metacognition using African-American Short Stories

Jessica L. Shupik
Keywords: African American short stories, metacognition, Recitatif, short stories

School Daze: Engagement Strategies for Middle School Readers

Joan Taylor
Keywords: African American short stories, cognitive strategies, reading strategies, short stories

Do You Know My Struggle? A Writing Unit Designed to Explore the Voices of Middle School Students

Michelle Todd
Keywords: external conflicts, internal conflicts, literacy, short stories

2011

Super Books! Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Enhance Literacy Instruction

Erin Bloom
Keywords: comic books, graphic novels, literacy

Connections to Literature

Nicole Flores
Keywords: African American literature, comprehension, Literature

Oh Mother, Pleeeeze Let Me Read That Book! The United States Constitution and Banned Books

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: banned, books, constitution, History, social history

Reading Persepolis: Defining and Redefining Culture, Gender and Genre

Tara Ann Carter
Keywords: gender, Iran, Middle East, Persepolis, women

Traveling In Time Through Words: Lyrics of Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz and the Blues

Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: African American culture, blues, funk, hip-hop, Jazz, Music