Questioning a white male advantage in STEM: Examining disparities in college major by gender and race/ethnicity

Riegle-Crumb, Catherine, & King, Barbara. (2010). Questioning a white male advantage in STEM: Examining disparities in college major by gender and race/ethnicity. Educational Researcher, 39(9), 656-664.

Let’s start leveling about leveling

Glasswell, Kath, & Ford, Michael. (2011). Let’s start leveling about leveling. Language Arts, 88(3), 208-216.

Text complexity and oral reading prosody in young readers

Benjamin, Rebecca George, & Schwanenflugel, Paula J. (2010). Text complexity and oral reading prosody in young readers. Reading Research Quarterly, 45(4), 388-404.

Accelerating reading inequities in the early years

Souto-Manning, Mariana. (2010). Accelerating reading inequities in the early years. Language Arts, 88(2), 104-113.

2009 Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts

2009 Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts. Journal of Children's Literature, 35(2), 17-27.

This annual list of children's and young adult books that provide teaching opportunities in the language arts is always good. This time, as always, I say to myself, "I've got to have those books!"

That being said, it seems that this year's 30 selections are more overwhelmingly geared to older children than in the past. Maybe that's just my own perception, since I've been working with really young children over the past two years, so I'm sensitive to age-appropriateness. Still, it's another good list. My eye was especially caught by the choices for the young ones, including E. Choung's Minji's Salon, Nikki Giovanni's anthology, Hip hop speaks to children: A celebration of poetry with a beat, and Y. Morales's Just in case: A trickster's tale and Spanish alphabet book. I think Jon Scieszka's memoir of growing up, Knucklehead: Tall tales and mostly true stories about growing up would be another useful acquisition.

Reframing the reading process through EMMA (Eye Movement and Miscue Analysis)

Kim, Koomi, Duckett, Peter, & Brown, Joel. (2010). Reframing the reading process through EMMA (Eye Movement and Miscue Analysis). Talking Points, 22(1), 10-14.

Information book read-alouds as models for second-grade authors

Bradley, Linda Golson, & Donovan, Carol A. (2010). Information book read-alouds as models for second-grade authors. The Reading Teacher, 64(4), 246-260.