Professional Service

• University Trainer for Reading Recovery Program
• Member of Reading Recovery Council of North America (RRCNA)
• Chair, Guidelines & Standard Committee of RRCNA
• Chair, Language and Literacy Faculty Committee at UNC-Wilmington
• Member, Graduate Faculty at UNCW
• International Reading Association
• American Educational Research Association

Research Interests

Reading Recovery program implementation and results

• Effects of language factors on early literacy acquisition
• The development of communicative competence

Courses Taught

• EDN 340 - Reading foundations
• EDN 556 - Clinical Teaching in Reading Recovery I
• EDN 557 - Clinical Teaching in Reading Recovery II
• EDN 558 - Foundations of Language and Literacy
• EDN 575 - 576 - Seminar in early Literacy Inventions I and II
• EDN 584 - Development of Language and Literacy
• EDN 587 - Seminar: Programs, Practices and Procedures in Language and Literacy (1 hr.)
• EDN 594 - Seminar in Education

Personal Information

• Vita

Reading Recovery Manuscripts

Problem-Solving Model of  Reading Recovery Teaching	Hard to Accelerate - handouts
Serving the Lowest Children First in Reading Recovery	Writing Decisions - handouts
Kindergarten Retention Policies and Reading Recovery	Rationales for Standards

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