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• Literacy portfolios: challenges that affect change

  Authors:Mary F. Roe and Carol VukelichFrom:Childhood Education (Vol. 74, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 19984,909 words Article The shift from literacy tests to literacy portfolios is deemed necessary since portfolio assessment presents a more appropriate evaluation tool than the inadequate traditional methods of testing. However, sometimes the...

• Developing New Technologies for Young Children

  Author:Mary F. RoeFrom:Childhood Education (Vol. 82, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 2005329 words Brief article DEVELOPING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. John Siraj-Blatchford, Editor. Sterling, UK: Trentham Books, 2004. 175 pp. $29.95 (US). In this edited text, Siraj-Blatchford presents various projects exploring the...

• Teacher Portfolios: Literacy Artifacts and Themes

  Author:Mary F. RoeFrom:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 1997 Book review

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• Four faces of differentiation: their attributes and potential

  Authors:Mary F. Roe and Joy EgbertFrom:Childhood Education (Vol. 87, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20102,772 words Report 1230LTeachers, teacher educators, and researchers care deeply about students' achievement. However, current assessments, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the United States, have noted the small...

• Understanding the gap between an AmericaReads program and the tutoring sessions: The nesting of challenges

  Authors:Mary F. Roe and Carol VukelichFrom:Journal of Research in Childhood Education (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall-Winter 20016,698 words Article Abstract. Increasingly, students receive tutoring for reading assistance. While some information exists about the features of various programs, little is known about the overlay between the planned tutoring program and...

• Inside the Literacy Hour: Learning From Classroom Experience

  Author:Mary F. RoeFrom:Childhood Education (Vol. 80, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 2003268 words Book review, Brief a... R. Fisher. New York: Routledge/ Falmer, 2002. 190 pp. Paperback, $24.95. In Inside the Literacy Hour, Ros Fisher provides an account of teaching literacy that stems from a research project linked to England's National...

• The ways teachers do the things they do: differentiation in middle level literacy classes

  Author:Mary F. RoeFrom:Middle Grades Research Journal (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20107,875 words Article 1200LIn this qualitative study, the author explored the concept of differentiation in urban, suburban, and rural language arts classrooms. The overall goal of understanding how differentiation occurred in these classrooms...

• Girls in the Middle: Working to Succeed in School

  Author:Mary F. RoeFrom:Childhood Education (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 1997366 words Book review, Brief a... Girls in the Middle is an important book. First, it simultaneously considers gender, school and community cultures. This makes its contributions distinctive and noteworthy - linking the tenets of middle-level education...

• Real reading interactions: identifying and meeting the challenges of middle level unsuccessful readers

  Author:Mary F. RoeFrom:Childhood Education (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20044,218 words Article Students in the United States do not read well enough (Showers, Joyce, Scanlon, & Schnaubelt, 1998). While the National Assessment of Educational Progress (2003) reports an encouraging upswing in 8th-grade students'...

• The power of why: connecting curriculum to students' lives

  Authors:Joy Egbert and Mary F. RoeFrom:Childhood Education (Vol. 90, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  July-August 20144,267 words Report 1270LStudent disengagement can be a major impediment to effective student learning. When parents and educators cannot provide adequate reasoning to explain the value of what is taught at home and in school, students can lose...