Volume 12(1): Community Engaged Literacies
Research Articles | Academic Book Reviews | CYAL Book Reviews | Poetry and Art
Editor’s Introduction
Lived Words and Worlds: Community Engaged Literacies
Meghan E. Barnes
Research Articles
Reading and Writing with a Public Purpose: Fostering Middle School Students’ Academic and Critical Community Literacies through Debate
Nicole Mirra, Benjamin Honoroff, Suzanne Elgendy, Gabriel Pietrzak
Collaborating in the Community: Fostering Identity and Creative Expression in an Afterschool Program
Leslie Cavendish, Sarah Vess, Kirsten Li-Barber
Teaching Multiple Literacies and Critical Literacy to Pre-Service Teachers through Children’s-Literature-Based Engagements
Cheu-jey Lee
Conflicted Worlds of Multilingual Communities in Africa: Literacy Tangled in Words
Dainess Maganda
Generational, Cultural, and Linguistic Integration for Literacy Learning and Teaching in Uganda: Pedagogical Possibilities, Challenges, and Lessons from one NGO
by: Willy Ngaka, Ross Graham, Fred Masagazi Masaazi, Elly Moses Anyandru
Enhancing Academic Investment through Home — School Connections and Building on ELL Students’ Scholastic Funds of Knowledge
Eric J. Johnson & Angela B. Johnson
A Case Study of Teacher Reflection: Examining Teacher Participation in a Video-based Professional Learning Community
Susanna M. Steeg
Academic Book Reviews
These book reviews cover a variety of texts addressing education and literacy, and the texts are written by a range of scholars who tackle important issues in education. The reviews give synopsis of the texts, and at times offer their personal responses to contextualize their readings. These texts address culturally proactive pedagogy, digital reading (a review with digital links), theories of second language learning, a discipline-based inquiry approach in education, a cultural memoir by a leading scholar in the literacy field, and how to teach the taboo in schools. The reviewers are Masters students, doctoral students, and professors, women and men, and hail from diverse backgrounds. With these reviews, these texts are showcased by these six reviewers, and are given breath.
Xiaodi Zhou, Academic Book Review Editor, bookrev@uga.edu
Review of Brooklyn Dreams: My Life in Public Education
Jacqueline J. Saindon
Review of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning: Theoretical Basis and Experimental Evidence
Heesun Chang
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Review of Digital Reading: What’s Essential in Grades 3-8, Review of Literacy
Marianne Snow Campbell
Review of Literacy and History in Action: Immersive Approaches to Disciplinary Thinking, Grades 5-12
Justin Dooly
Review of Pose, Wobble, Flow: A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction
Meghan E. Barnes
Rachelle Savitz
Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
JoLLE reviews children’s and young adult literature in order to support engagement with textual literacy for both the classroom and the individual learner. The journal reviews newly released and soon-to-be-released texts designed for the pre-K through twelfth grade audiences.
For JoLLE’s spring issue, we spotlight three publications. Dr. Joel Taxel takes a close look at 21st Century publishing and UGA star football player Malcolm Mitchell’s picture book A Magician’s hat. Next, we include a podcast with Ann Martin, author of The Baby-Sitters Club series, and find out more about her recent publication Rain, Reign as she answers questions from student reviewer, Riley McLaughlin. Finally, Bill Sommer shares with us the creative process behind the book A 52-Hertz Whale coauthored with Natalie Tilghman and finalist for the Green Earth Award.
Rachel Sanders, CYAL Book Review Editor, cyalbookrev@uga.edu.
Elementary School Book
Review of The Magician’s Hat
Reviewer: Joel Taxel
Elementary to Middle School Books
Review of El Deafo
Student Reviewer: Ivy Hadley
Educator Reviewer: Soojin Ahn
Review of Cotton Patch Rebel: The story of Clarence Jordan
Student Reviewer: Harper Ladd
Educator Reviewer: Sharon Sanders
Middle School Books
Review of Rain, Reign
Student Reviewer: Riley McLaughlin
Educator Reviewer: Laura Beck
Review of Promise
Student Reviewer: Bailey Brockelbank
Educator Reviewer: William J. Fassbender
High School Books
Review of The Way Back from Broken
Student Reviewer: Eveliyn Martinez
Educator Reviewer: Helene Halstead
Review of A 52-Hertz Whale
Student Reviewer: Kelsey Messinger
Educator Reviewer: Heidi Hadley
Poetry & Arts
The poetry selections for the 2016 issue of JoLLE center around the conference theme of Lived Words and Worlds: Community Engaged Literacies. The poets published in this issue have created beautiful, lyrical accounts of how language and literacy can build communities and increase opportunities in classrooms and beyond. They have taken their identities as teachers, community members, and writers into account and constructed pieces about how lived words can forge connections worldwide. The poems remind us that through embracing our own identities, we as educators can encourage our students to find their literary voices and tell stories of their own communities.
Margaret A. Robbins, Poetry & Arts Editor, jolleart@uga.edu
“you ask me how”
Khédija Gadhoum
“Brother Book Bouncing–An O-bit”
Dale Allender
“But I’m Not a Reading Teacher”
“The Taxi Driver’s Daughter”
Leah Panther
“Thoughts to Words”
“Les Mots Justes”
Jeff Kilpatrick
“Why Don’t You Understand?”
Dr. Dainess Maganda
Principal Editor
Meghan E. Barnes
Managing Editor
Stephanie Anne Shelton
Conference Chair
Helene Halstead
Production Editor
Megan P. Brock
Communications Editor
Nick Thompson
Poetry and Arts Editor
Margaret Robbins
Academic Book Review Editor
Xiaodi Zhou
CYAL Book Review Editor
Rachel Kaminski Sanders
Scholars Speak Out Editor
Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso
Review Board Members
Faculty Advisor
Peter Smagorinsky