Fall 2016
Book Review of Revitalizing Read Alouds.
Price and Bradley, Columbia University, Teachers College Press.
Fall 2014
The Origins of the ABCs: A Crusade to Develop Compassionate Educators
Getting to Know Ourselve and Others Through the ABC’s.
In Finkbeiner, C. & Lazar, A. (Eds.)
Information Age: Charlotte, NC (pp. 1-9).
Fall 2011
Authentic Professional Development and Assessment for Language Arts
Teacher Capacity for Change.
Authored with Sunita Singh, pp. 322-329. 3rd edition of the Handbook of Research on
Teaching the English Language Arts. Edited by D. Lapp and D. Fisher (pp. 322-329).
New York, NY: Routledge.
Fall 2009-2016
Chapter 4-Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners.
With Wen Ma. In J. Vacca & R. Vacca, Content Area Reading (10th Ed.)
Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon
Fall 2009
My Language, My Culture: Helping Teachers Connect Home and School for
English Language Learning. In J. Coppola & E.V. Primas, Eds. One Classroom, Many Learners.
Neward, DE: International Reading Assocation
Spring 2009
Foreword. In Guofang Li, (Ed.). Multicultural Families, Home Literacies,
and Mainstream Schooling.
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing
Spring 2009
Foreward. In S.L. Spencer & S.A. Vavra, The Perfect Norm: How to
Teach Differentially, Assess Effectively, and Manage a Classroom Ethically
in Ways that are "Brain-friendly" and Culturally Responsive.
Charlotte, NC, Information Age Publishing
Fall 2007
Closing the Gap With Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Urban English Classroom.
With Kevin Salamone. In K. Keaton & S.Vavra (Ed.).
Closing the Gap: English Educators Address the Tensions Between Theory and Practice.
Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing
Fall 2007-2017
Chapter 4-Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners. With Wen Ma.
In J. Vacca & R. Vacca, Content Area Readings (9th Ed.).
Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon
August 2006
Book Review of Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understanding.
by S. Greene and D. Abt-Perkins, Recognizing the Elephant and Taking Action,
Reading Research Quarterly. With Dr. Patricia A. Edwards
May 2005
Exploring Values Through Youth Literature and the Media. E. Opperman (Ed.).
In Literature and the Art of Living, Literaturund Lebenskunst.
Kassel, Germany: University of Kassel Press
December 2005
Culturally Responsive Instruction: Promoting Literacy in Secondary Content Areas.
Adolescent Literacy.
Naperville, IL: Learning Point Associates.
December 2003
Vivid Violence and Voids: Exploring Values for Critical Media Literacy.
Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal 44(4), (pp. 32-38).
September 2003
The ABC’s of Family Involvement and Literacy Development.
Idiom: New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 33(3), (pp. 1-16).
August 2003/2006
ABC’s of Cultural Understanding and Communication: Other Voices.
In M.E. Vogt and B.A. Shearer,
Reading Specialists in the Real World (pp. 132-136).
August 2003
Balance is Beautiful (Chapter 2)
Also, a reprint of Know Thyself and Understand Others from Language Arts, 1999, (Chapter, 7).
In Promising Practices For Urban Reading Instruction.
Pamela Mason and Judith Schumm (Eds.).
Newark DE: International Reading Association.
Selected as the August 2003, IRA Book of the Month
November 2002
The Power to Empower: An Urban Teacher Communicates
and Connects With Her Children’s Families.
In Teacher Education Preparation for Diversity. Edited by Anthony Manson,
Ph.D. University of Tennessee.
New York: Mellon Press.
First author is Susan Meskos, Le Moyne Graduate.
March 2002
Literacy Learning and Scientific Inquiry: Children Respond,
The Reading Teacher, 55(6), (pp. 534-548).
Fall 2001
Campus diversity: The serious advantage. Le Moyne College Magazine (pp. 20-21).
January 2001
Chapter 12, Emphasizing Differences to Build Cultural Understandings.
In V. Risko and K. Bromley, Editors, Collaboration for Diverse Learners: Viewpoints and Practices.
Selected as the December 2000 IRA Book of the Month
December 2000
Reprint - KWLQ: Inquiry and Literacy Learning in Science,
Archives Jean Piaget Research and Documentation Centre,
Annual Catalog for Developmental Psychology,
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Archives Jean Piaget,
University of Geneva, Switzerland
December 2000
Teachers Connecting and Communicating With Families for Literacy Development.
In T. Shanahan and F. Rodriguez-Brown, (Eds.),
National Reading Conference Yearbook, 49th (pp. 194-208).
Chicago, IL: National Reading Conference
September 2000
KWLQ: Inquiry and Literacy Learning in Science,
Chapter in Teaching Reading Comprehension and Exploring Multiple Literacies:
Strategies from The Reading Teacher.
By Editors, N. Padak, T. Rasinski, B. Church, G. Fawcett, B.J. Gunnett, J. Hendershot, J. Henry,
J. Peck, E. Pryor, & K. Roskos. (Reprint)
August 2000-2015
Chapter, 13, 14, 10 Meeting the literacy needs of diverse learners.
In J. Vacca, R. Vacca, & M. Gove, Reading and Learning to Read (4th, 5th, 6th, Eds.) (pp. 485-518).
New York: Longman
April 1999
KWLQ: Inquiry and Literacy Learning in Science,
The Reading Teacher, 52(6), (pp. 789-792).
March 1999
Focus on Research: Know Thyself and Understand Others.
Language Arts 76(4), (pp. 332-340).
December 1998
The ABC’s Model: Teachers Connect Home and School.
In T. Shanahan and F. Rodriguez-Brown, (Eds.),
National Reading Conference Yearbook 47 (pp. 194-208).
Chicago, IL: National Reading Conference
September 1998
The ABC’s of Cultural Understanding and Communication.
Equity and Excellence in Education, 31(2), (pp.28-38).
September 1996
One Teacher’s Reflections: Implementing Multicultural Literacy Learning.
Equity and Excellence in Education, 29(2), (pp. 20-29).
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February 1995
Working and Playing With Others: Cultural Conflict and Struggle in a Kindergarten Program,
The Reading Teacher, 48(5), (pp. 404-412).
December 1993
Literacy Development of Two Bilingual, Ethnic-Minority Children in a Kindergarten Program.
In D. Leu and C. Kinzer (Eds.). Examining Central Issues in Literacy Research, 42nd Annual Yearbook
of the National Reading Conference.
Chicago, IL: National Reading Conference
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