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PhD Reading Education University of Georgia
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Bachelors Elementary Education University of Georgia

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According to Wikipedia, Donna Alvermann is an American educator and researcher in the field of Language and Literacy Education whose work focuses on adolescent literacy in and out of school, inclusive of new media and digital literacies. Her most recent research interest involves developing historical-autobiographical methods for uncovering silences in scholarly writing that mask more than they disclose. She is the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia . She is also a UGA-appointed Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education.

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Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents (2002) (492)
Role of epistemological beliefs and learned helplessness in secondary school students' learning science concepts from text. (1995) (360)
Reading Adolescents' Reading Identities: Looking Back To See Ahead. (2001) (321)
Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World (2002) (321)
Critical Media Literacy: Research, Theory, and Practice in “New Times” (2000) (299)
Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Researching Critical Media Literacy (2002) (282)
Why Bother Theorizing Adolescents' Online Literacies for Classroom Practice and Research? (2008) (264)
The reading–science learning–writing connection: Breakthroughs, barriers, and promises (1994) (240)
Content Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms (1997) (238)
Prior Knowledge Activation and the Comprehension of Compatible and Incompatible Text. (1985) (191)
Reconceptualizing the literacies in adolescents' lives (2006) (151)
What Teachers Do When They Say They're Having Discussions of Content Area Reading Assignments: A Qualitative Analysis. (1990) (143)
Message from the “Island group”: What is literacy in science literacy? (2003) (142)
Teaching and Learning in Reading (2006) (140)
Comprehension of Counterintuitive Science Text: Effects of Prior Knowledge and Text Structure (1989) (125)
Middle- and High-School Students' Perceptions of How They Experience Text-Based Discussions: A Multicase Study. Reading Research Report No. 36. (1996) (124)
The Compensatory Effect of Graphic Organizers on Descriptive Text (1981) (124)
Fandom and Critical Media Literacy. (2000) (120)
Researching Libraries, Literacies, and Lives: A Rhizoanalysis (2002) (115)
Executive Summary and Paper Commissioned by the National Reading Conference (2001) (96)
Adolescents' Perceptions and Negotiations of Literacy Practices in After-School Read and Talk Clubs (1999) (95)
The Role of Refutation Text in Overcoming Difficulty with Science Concepts. College Reading and Learning Assistance Technical Report 85-08. (1985) (94)
Classroom Discussion of Content Area Reading Assignments: An Intervention Study. (1989) (91)
Supporting Older Students' In- and Out-of-School Literacies. (2004) (90)
Children's Everyday Literacies: Intersections of Popular Culture and Language Arts Instruction. (2003) (88)
Preservice elementary school teachers' conceptual change about projectile motion: Refutation text, demonstration, affective factors, and relevance (1997) (88)
On Writing Qualitative Research. (1996) (86)
Effects of Prior Knowledge Activation Modes and Text Structure on Nonscience Majors’ Comprehension of Physics (1989) (86)
CHILDREN'S TRANSFER OF GRAPHIC ORGANIZER INSTRUCTION (1986) (79)
Effects of interactive discussion and text type on learning counterintuitive science concepts (1995) (74)
Adolescents' Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture (2010) (72)
The Discussion Web: A Graphic Aid for Learning across the Curriculum. (1991) (70)
Literacy Identity Work: Playing To Learn with Popular Media. (2001) (67)
Interrupting Gendered Discursive Practices in Classroom Talk about Texts: Easy to Think About, Difficult to Do (1997) (67)
Adolescents’ Web-Based Literacies, Identity Construction, and Skill Development (2012) (63)
A classroom training study: The effects of graphic organizer instruction on fourth graders’ comprehension (1984) (57)
Literacy in America : an encyclopedia of history, theory, and practice (2002) (54)
Using discussion to promote reading comprehension (1987) (54)
Telling Themselves Who They Are: What One Out-of-School Time Study Revealed about Underachieving Readers (2007) (52)
Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Collection of Teaching Strategies. (2000) (51)
Themes and Directions of the National Reading Research Center. Perspectives in Reading Research, No. 1. (1993) (50)
Confronting the Digital Divide: Debunking Brave New World Discourses. (2017) (48)
Media, Information Communication Technologies, and Youth Literacies (2004) (47)
Peer-Led Discussions: Whose Interests Are Served?. (1996) (47)
Adolescents' Engagement with Web 2.0 and Social Media: Research, Theory, and Practice (2012) (41)
Multiliteracies and Self-Questioning in the Service of Science Learning (2004) (41)
Comprehension Strategy Instruction for Multimodal Texts in Science (2011) (39)
Teaching and Learning in the Middle Grades (1992) (39)
Being a friend and a mentor at the same time: a pooled case comparison (2004) (39)
Do Content Area Strategies Have a Research Base (1989) (37)
Literacies and their Investigation Through Theories and Models (2018) (36)
Restructuring Text Facilitates Written Recall of Main Ideas. (1982) (35)
Literature Discussion Groups: An Examination of Gender Roles. (1997) (33)
Switching Places and Looking to Adolescents for the Practices That Shape School Literacies (2008) (30)
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN'S RETENTION OF “INCONSIDERATE” TEXT (1983) (30)
Reflective Practice in an Online Literacy Course: Lessons Learned from Attempts to Fuse Reading and Science Instruction (2011) (30)
What Could Professional Wrestling and School Literacy Practices Possibly Have in Common (2004) (30)
Dissolving Learning Boundaries: The Doing, Re-Doing, and Undoing of School (2007) (30)
Image, Language, and Sound: Making Meaning with Popular Culture Texts. (2001) (28)
Science Learning: Processes and Applications (1991) (27)
Moving On/Keeping Pace: Youth's Literate Identities and Multimodal Digital Texts (2011) (27)
Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Cultural Construction (2006) (26)
Social Media Texts and Critical Inquiry in a Post‐Factual Era (2017) (26)
Reconceptualizing the literacies in adolescents lives: Bridging the everyday/academic divide, third edition (2012) (25)
Questioning the Separation of In-School from Out-of-School Contexts for Literacy Learning: An Interview with Donna E. Alvermann. (2011) (25)
Teacher‐student mediation of content area texts (1989) (25)
Effects of Spontaneous and Induced Lookbacks on Self-Perceived High- and Low-Ability Comprehenders. (1988) (24)
Secondary School Reading (2016) (24)
Language of Literacy Dialogues: Facing the Future or Reproducing the Past (1996) (23)
Text Differences: Children's Perceptions at the Transition Stage in Reading. (1982) (22)
Second Graders’ Strategic Preferences While Reading Basal Stories (1984) (22)
Selecting texts for English Language Arts classrooms: When assessment is not enough (2008) (22)
Mentoring and Reporting Research: A Concern for Aesthetics (2000) (22)
Popular Culture and Literacy Practices (2010) (21)
The Role of Textbooks in Teachers' Interactive Decision Making. (1987) (21)
Adolescent Literacy in a Digital World (2019) (20)
Chapter 2. Ned and Kevin: An Online Discussion that Challenges the ‘Not-Yet Adult’ Cultural Model (2006) (20)
Messages That High School World History Textbooks Convey: Challenges for Multicultural Literacy (1994) (20)
Literacy on the Edge: How Close Are We to Closing the Literacy Achievement Gap?. (2005) (20)
Bring It to Class: Unpacking Pop Culture in Literacy Learning (Grades 4 through 12). (2010) (19)
The Possible Values of Dissonance In Student Teaching Experiences (1981) (19)
The Effect of Graphic Organizer Instruction on Fourth Graders' Comprehension of Social Studies Text. (1984) (18)
The Crisis in Adolescent Literacy: Is It Real or Imagined? (1998) (17)
Postsecondary Research Base for Content Reading Strategies. (1989) (17)
Adolescent Literacy Instruction and the Discourse of “Every Teacher a Teacher of Reading” (2013) (15)
Content area reading pedagogy and domain knowledge: a Bourdieusian analysis (2011) (15)
Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy (2018) (15)
Metacognitive Knowledge about Reading Proficiency: Its Relation to Study Strategies and Task Demands (1982) (13)
The M Word: Dare We Use It? (2017) (13)
Is There a Place for Popular Culture in Curriculum and Classroom Instruction (2012) (12)
PERSPECTIVES ON SECONDARY SCHOOL READING: IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTION (1994) (12)
Youth in the Middle: Our Guides to Improved Literacy Instruction?. (2006) (12)
Perspectives for literacy research (1996) (12)
Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity (2004) (10)
Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading--A Critical Review. (1986) (10)
Inviting Multiple Perspectives: Creating Opportunities for Student Talk about Gender Inequalities in Texts. (1994) (10)
Chapter 2: Multimodal Pedagogies: Playing, Teaching, and Learning with Adolescents’ Digital Literacies (2016) (9)
LITERACIES IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL: A SURVEY OF U.S. YOUTH (2007) (8)
Redefining adolescent literacy instruction (2007) (7)
Seeing and Then Seeing Again (2004) (7)
Being in the Moment (2015) (7)
Technology Use and Needed Research in Youth Literacies (2006) (7)
What Does Digital Media Allow Us to “Do” to One Another?: Economic Significance of Content and Connection (2016) (7)
Alvermann-1 Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents The JLR Version of the Online “ White Paper ” (2002) (6)
Adolescents' Negotiations of Out-of-School Reading Discussions. Reading Research Report No. 77. (1997) (6)
What are evaluation studies, and should they be published in RRQ? (2005) (6)
Teaching as Persuasion: The Worthiness of the Metaphor (2001) (5)
Learning from Our Lives: Women, Research, and Autobiography in Education. Anna Neumann , Penelope L. PetersonFeminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life. Carmen Luke (2000) (5)
Quality Assurance in Online Content Literacy Methods Courses (2012) (5)
On metaphors and editing (2003) (5)
Move Over, Reading: Writing Matters! (2017) (5)
Video Assisted Coaching of Textbook Discussion Skills: Its Impact on Critical Reading Behavior. (1986) (5)
“Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom”: Reflections From Scholars in the Field (2019) (5)
Young People's Relationships with Reading (2006) (4)
Putting the Textbook in its Place—Your Students' Hands (1983) (4)
Chapter 6: Textual Play, Satire, and Counter Discourses of Street Youth Zining Practices (2016) (4)
Gender, Text, and Discussion: Expanding the Possibilities. Perspectives in Reading Research No. 3. (1994) (4)
The Role of the Textbook in Discussion. (1985) (4)
Chapter 10: “I Think They’re Being Wired Differently”: Secondary Teachers’ Cultural Models of Adolescents and Their Online Literacies (2016) (4)
Teaching Preservice Teachers to Read the Discourse of School Reform (2006) (4)
Gender, Text, and Discussion: Expanding the Possibilities (2019) (4)
Reflections on our editorship (2007) (4)
Adolescent Literacies (4)
Research within Reach: Secondary School Reading: A Research Guided Response to Concerns of Reading Educators. [Revised.]. (1987) (4)
Ways of knowing are ways of seeing--A response to Roller (1991) (3)
Reading Achievement and Linguistic Stages: A Comparison of Disabled Readers and Chomsky's 6- to 10-Year-Olds. (1981) (3)
The Mnemonic Value of the Picto-Organizer for Word Identification Among Disabled Readers (1983) (3)
A Relational Model of Adolescent Literacy Instruction (2018) (3)
The Compensatory Effect of Graphic Organizer Instruction on Text Structure. (1981) (3)
Getting involved and having fun: dilemmas in building a literate community in one lower‐track English class (1996) (3)
What a Genealogical Analysis of Nila Banton Smith's American Reading Instruction Reveals About the Present Through the Past (2020) (3)
US Middle Years Teaching Education and Youth Literacies (2003) (3)
Revealing an exchange between authors and reviewers about statistical significance (2005) (3)
Discussion of JLR Critical Issues in Literacy (1996) (3)
Discussion vs. Recitation in the Secondary Classroom. (1985) (3)
Youths’ Global Engagement in Digital Writing Ecologies (2017) (3)
Discussion: The Forgotten Language Art: Becoming Literate in the Secondary School. (1986) (3)
Moving Beyond the Gold Standard: Epistemological and Ontological Considerations of Research in Science Literacy (2009) (3)
Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High (1998) (2)
An Essay Review of the Lewis and Fabos Article on Instant Messaging (2008) (2)
Verbal Report Data: The Effect of Manipulating Text Familiarity and Interval of Reporting. (1984) (2)
Teacher Assessment and Teacher Change in Classroom Communication Behaviors. (1990) (2)
A Feminist Critique of Media Representation (2018) (2)
Field-Experience Reading Interns Profile the Effective/Ineffective University Supervisor. (1985) (2)
Knowledge of Text Structure and Its Influence on a Transfer Task. (1984) (2)
A Strategy for Making Content Reading Successful: Grades 4-6. (1982) (2)
Drawing on Youth Cultures in Content Learning and Literacy (2016) (2)
Overcoming the Digital Divide: Four Critical Steps. Literacy Leadership Brief. (2017) (2)
Chapter 4: 4 Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide/When Social Networking was Enuf: A Black Feminist Perspective on Literacy Online (2016) (2)
Organizers That Compensate for Text Organization: Research With Application to Teaching Reading. (1981) (2)
The Power of Discourse: cml and The Tantrum that Saved the World (2019) (2)
Problematizing Adolescent Literacies: Four Instances, Multiple Perspectives (2006) (2)
Alvermann & Jackson: Response to “Beyond the Common Core: Examining 20 Years of Literacy Priorities and Their Impact on Struggling Readers” (2016) (2)
Creating Gaps in Understanding: How Gen Z Disrupts Gender Norms on TikTok (2021) (2)
Editorial: Lines of force: Policy, identity and English as a mode of resistance (2008) (2)
Discussing Read-Aloud Fiction: One Approach For Motivating Critical Thinking (1988) (2)
The RRQ peer‐review process (2003) (1)
How Can We Study Children’s/Youth’s Out of School Experiences to Inform Classroom Practices? (2020) (1)
Introduction (2000) (1)
Exposure to Complex Syntactic Materials and Stages of Linguistic Development in Reading Disabled Children. (1983) (1)
How Gender and Intersectionality Inform Adolescent Literacy (2018) (1)
Using Textbook Reading Assignments to Promote Classroom Discussion (1984) (1)
Writing ecologies (2012) (1)
Future trends in reading assessment and instruction in the middle grades (1982) (1)
Critical Literacy Out of the Comfort Zone (2021) (1)
Using Discussion to Promote Reading Comprehension (Spanish translation) (1988) (1)
Epilogue: Looking Back to Look Ahead (2016) (1)
The Gendered Language of Texts and Classrooms: Teachers and Students Exploring Multiple Perspectives and Interpretations. Instructional Resource No. 23. (1996) (1)
Story Constituents and Children's Strategic Preferences. (1983) (1)
What teachers do when they say they’re having a discussion following content reading assignments (1990) (1)
Telling Tales: Tales that are Telling (1999) (1)
Content area reading and literature studies (2001) (1)
“In This Little Town Nothing Much Ever Happens, But Someday Something Will”: Reading Young Adult Literature from the Blue Ridge Foothills: Gay Ivey (2012) (1)
Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and IdentityJames Collins and Richard K. Blot, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 217 pp., ISBN: 0-521-59661-0 (2004) (1)
Teaching the Process of Inferring through a Listening Guide (1984) (0)
Afterword (2019) (0)
Engaging Upper Elementary Students in Critical Media Literacy: Margaret's Lesson (2018) (0)
Junior High Basals: Effective Hi/Lo Materials for Remedial High School Readers. (1981) (0)
Critical Media Literacy and Environmental Pedagogy: Children’s Books, Hip-Hop, Fake News and Hell (2019) (0)
Editorial Advisory Board (1986) (0)
Communication in the classroom: What makes a discussion happen?: Comprehension, Computers, and Communication. Fifth (1985) (0)
Primary and Elementary/Middle Grades Reading (2010) (0)
Principled practice for literacy learning and teaching: A research base for change (2007) (0)
A Critical Untangling of Adolescents’ Literacy Practices and Popular Culture (2017) (0)
What Are We Proud of in the Teaching of Reading: A Collaborative Effort!. (1982) (0)
Chapter 7: Digital Literacies and Hip Hop Texts: The Potential for Pedagogy (2016) (0)
Donna E. Alvermann on Simone de Beauvoir (2016) (0)
Principle 5: Adolescents Need Opportunities to Demonstrate Enthusiasm for Reading and Learning (2016) (0)
Introduction (2010) (0)
Identities, Positioning, and Critical Media Literacy (2018) (0)
1994 Special Issue of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching on: Reading, Writing, and Science Understanding (1992) (0)
Principle 2: Adolescents Need Opportunities to Participate in Respectful Environments Characterized by High Expectations, Trust, and Care (2016) (0)
Call for papers. 1994 special issue of the journal of research in science teaching on: reading, writing, and science understanding (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (1988) (0)
Why Principled Practices (2016) (0)
Principle 4: Adolescents Need Opportunities to Generate and Express Rich Understandings of Ideas and Concepts (2016) (0)
About the Contributors (2001) (0)
Editorial Advisory Board (1985) (0)
Engaging Middle School Students in Critical Media Literacy: Donna's Lesson (2018) (0)
Psychological Effects of School Space on Students' Learning and Behavior: Selected Source Materials. (1979) (0)
Communicating in the classroom: What makes a discussion happen?: The fifth yearbook of the American reading forum (1985) (0)
The Optimism of Uncertainty: A Call to Action (2018) (0)
A research agenda for Latin@ youth's new media use in the new south: Common sense for the common good? (2017) (0)
Assessment of classroom interaction dynamics: The thirty-fourth yearbook of the national readin (1985) (0)
Chapter 5: Fandom: Exploring Adolescent Pop Culture through Multiple Literacies (2016) (0)
Contributing Authors (1996) (0)
Neither Here nor There: Competing Discourses in the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan (2018) (0)
A Longitudinal Critical Inquiry into Adult Literacy Tutoring Programs in Public Libraries (2017) (0)
Chapter 3: The Literacy Practices of an Adolescent Webcomics Creator (2016) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 31 (2002) (0)
Cultural Context; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; *Literacy; Power Structure; Secondary Education; Social Influences; Teacher Education (2000) (0)
Afterword (2012) (0)
Engaging Primary Grade Students in Critical Media Literacy: Jennifer's Lesson (2018) (0)
Literacies and Identity (2016) (0)
Reading about W omen in W orld H istory T extbooks from One F eminist Perspective (1996) (0)
Where We Are and Where We Need to Go in Theory and Research (2018) (0)
Editorial guidelines concerning conflict of interest for Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ) (2004) (0)
Chapter 1: Connect(ed) Learning: Fostering Digital Social Imagination Within a Humanizing Educational Framework (2016) (0)
Principle 3: Adolescents Need Opportunities to Engage With Print and Nonprint Texts for a Variety of Purposes (2016) (0)
Editorial Advisory Board (1985) (0)
TENSIONS PRODUCED BY CARRYING ON BUSINESS AS USUAL: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION IN LITERACY EDUCATION DURING COVID-19 (2021) (0)
Assessment of Classroom Interaction Dynamics. (1984) (0)
Principle 8: Adolescents Need Opportunities to Develop Critical Perspectives Toward What They Read, View, and Hear (2016) (0)
Approaches to Teaching using Popular Culture and the Politics of Pleasure (2018) (0)
Instructional Effectiveness; *Literacy; Preschool Education; Primary Education; *Reading Achievement; *Reading Comprehension; *Reading Difficulties; Reading Improvement; *Reading Instruction; Technology Integration (2002) (0)
Teaching Critical Media Literacy Using Popular Culture Texts (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (1994) (0)
Tales from TikTok (2021) (0)
Chapter 8: Digital Media Literacy: Connecting Young People’s Identities, Creative Production, and Learning about Video Games (2016) (0)
The Impact of Curricular Perceptions on Instructional Decisions: A Framework for Research. (1986) (0)
Abstract and Concrete Words (2012) (0)
Editorial Advisory Board (1985) (0)
Adapting Basal Instruction to Improve Content Area Reading (1989) (0)
Chapter 9: ‘Experts on the Field’: Redefining Literacy Boundaries (2016) (0)
PersuadeMe: An Online, Social, Role-Playing Tool for Learning How to Write Persuasive Arguments (2014) (0)
Adults who read to Children need to be Good Listeners, too! (1984) (0)
A Cyclical Plan for Using Study Strategies. (1984) (0)
Textbook Reading Assignments at the Secondary Level: Relating Teacher Behaviors to Student Performance and Attitude. (1982) (0)

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