Center for the Advancement of New Literacies in Middle Grades

Recommended Literature

Research & Practice

Alvermann, D. E., Hagood, M. C., & Williams, K. B. (2001). Image, language, and sound: Making meaning with popular culture texts. Reading Online, 4(11)

Alvermann, D. E., Moon, J. S., & Hagood, M. C. (1999). Popular culture in the classroom: Teaching and researching critical media literacy. Athens, GA: National Reading Conference.

Alvermann, D. E., Moore, D., Hinchman, K., Phelps, S., & Waff, D. (1998.). Reconceptualizing the literacies in adolescents' lives. Montclair: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Alvermann, D. E., & Moore, D. (1991). Secondary school reading. In M. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, P. Pearson & R. Barr (Eds.), Handbook of reading research. (pp. 951-983). New York: Longman.

Ash, G. E., & Hagood, M. C. (2000). Using karaoke in middle school classrooms to improve reading fluency, meaning making, and motivation. Session presented at the International Reading Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Bean, T. W., Bean, S. K., & Bean, K. R. (1999). Intergenerational conversations and two adolescents' multiple literacies: Implications for redefining content area literacy. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 42 (6), 438-486.

Bitz, M. (2004). The comic book project: Forging alternative pathways to literacy. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 47(7), 574-586.

Brown, D. (2003). Urban teachers' use of culturally responsive management strategies. Theory into Practice, 42(4), 277-282.

Chandler-Olcott, K., & Mahar, D. (2001.). A framework for choosing topics for, with, and by adolescent writers. Voices from the Middle, 9(1), 40-47.

Finders, M. (2000). "Gotta be worse": Negotiating the pleasurable and the popular. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 44(2), 146-149.

Flood, J., & Lapp, D. (1995). Broadening the lens: Toward and expanded conceptualization of literacy. In K.A. Hinchman, D.Leu, C. Kinzer (Eds.), Perspectives on Literacy Research and Practices (pp. 1-16).Chicago: National Reading Conference.

Gee, J.P. (2000). Teenagers in new times: A new literacy studies perspective. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 43(5), 412-420.

Guzetti, B., & Gamboa, M. (2004). Zines for social justice: Adolescent girls writing on their own. Reading Research Quarterly, 39(4), 408-436.

Hagood, M.C. (2002). Critical literacy for whom? Reading Research and Instruction, 41(3), 247-266.

Hagood, M.C., Alwahab, A., Bagalio, H., Buck, A. L., Hilton, J., Killian, E., et al. (in press). ELA teachers' use of multiliteracies to teach ELA standards. Research brief submitted to the South Carolina Professors of Middle Level Education.

Hagood, M.C., Provost, M.C., Skinner, E.N., & Egelson, P.E. (2008). Teachers’ & Students’ Literacy
Performance in & Engagement with New Literacies Strategies in Underperforming Middle Schools. Middle Grades Research Journal, 3, 57-95.

Hagood, M. C. New media and online literacies: No age left behind [online version]. [supplement to Hagood, M.C., Leander, K.M. Luke, C., Mackey, M., & Nixon, H. (2003). Media and online literacy studies (New Directions in Research). Reading Research Quarterly, 38(3), 388-413.] Retrieved 2.11.06, from http://www.reading.org/rrqpnline/supplements/38_3/ Hagood, M. C., Stevens, L. P., & Reinking, D. (2004/ 2002). What do THEY have to teach US? Talkin' 'cross generations! In D. Alvermann (Ed.), Adolescents and literacies in a digital world. (pp. 68-83). New York: Peter Lang.

Lewis, C., & Finders, M. (2004/2002). Implied adolescents and implied teachers: A generation gap for new times. In D. E. Alvermann (Ed.), Adolescents and literacies in a digital world. (pp. 101-113). New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

Mahiri, J. (Ed.). (2004). What they don't learn in school: Literacy in the lives of urban youth. New York: Peter Lang.

Moje, E., Young, J.P., Readence, J., & Moore, D. (2000). Reinventing adolescent literacy for new times: Perennial and millennial issues. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 43, 400-411.

Morrell, E. (2004). Linking literacy and popular culture: Finding connections for lifelong learning. New York: Christopher-Gordon.

Morrell, E. (2002). Promoting academic literacy with urban youth through engaging hip-hop culture. English Journal, 91(6), 88-92.

O'Brien, D. (2001). "At-risk" adolescents: Redefining competence through the multiliteracies of intermediality, visual arts, and representation. Reading Online, 4(11). Retrieved 1.30.06 from http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/obrien/index.html O'Brien, D. G. (1998). Multiple literacies in a high-school program for "at-risk" adolescents. In D. E. Alvermann, K. A. Hinchman, D. W. Moore, S. F. Phelps & D. R. Waff (Eds.), Reconceptualizing the literacies in adolescents' lives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Phelps, S. (2005). Ten years of research on adolescent literacy, 1994-2004: A review. Naperville, IL: Learning Point Associates.

Skinner, E. N. (2007). "Teenage Addiction": Writing workshop meets critical media literacy. Voices from the Middle, December issue.

Skinner, E. N. (2007) "Teenage Addiction": Adolescent girls drawing upon popular culture texts as mentors for writing in an after-school writing club. NRC Yearbook.

Vasquez, V. (2003). What Pokemon can teach us about learning and literacy. Language Arts, 81, 118-125.

Xu, S. (2003). Teachers' reading of students' popular culture texts: The interplay of students' interests, teacher knowledge, and literacy curriculum. In D. Shallert, C.M. Fairbanks, J. Worthy, B. Maloch, & J.V. Hoffman, (Eds.), 52nd Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, (pp. 417-431. )

Theory

Barton, D., & Ivanic, R. (Eds.) (2000). Situated literacies: Reading and writing in context. New York: Routledge.

Gee, J. P. (1996). Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourse (2^nd ed.). London: Taylor & Francis.

Hull, G., & Schultz, K. (2002). School's out: Bridging out-of-school literacies with classroom practice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Lankshear, C., & Knobel, M. (2003). New literacies: Changing knowledge and classroom learning. London: Open University Press.

Lee, C. D. (1992). Literacy, cultural diversity, and instruction. Education and Urban Society, 24(2), 279-291.

Luke, C. (1997). Media literacy and cultural studies. In S. Muspratt, A. Luke & P. Freebody (Eds.), Constructing critical literacies: Teaching and learning textual practice (pp. 19-49). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.

New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review, 66, 60-92.