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Faculty and Staff Listing
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Julie Coiro, Assistant Professor (401) 874-4872 |
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Education:
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Ph.D. |
Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut |
2007 |
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M.Ed. |
Curriculum & Instruction, University of New Orleans |
1993 |
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B.S. |
Special Education PreK-12, University of Connecticut |
1989 |
Courses taught:
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EDC 424 |
Teaching Literacy in the Elementary School |
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EDC 448 |
Literacy Practices for Content Subjects |
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EDC 425 |
Using Trade Books in Reading and Writing |
Research Interests:
- Strategic reading comprehension instruction
- New literacies of the Internet and online reading comprehension
- Effective practices for technology integration
- Effective practices for professional development
Selected Publications:
Books:
Coiro, J., Knobel, M., Lankshear, C., & Leu, D. J. (Editors). (in press). Handbook of Research in New Literacies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Download Table of Contents and Introduction for personal use only.
Leu, D. J., Jr., Leu, D. D. & Coiro, J. (2004). Teaching with the Internet: Lessons from the classroom (4th ed.). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon. Companion website at http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/fourth.html
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Coiro, J. & Dobler, E. (2007). Exploring the online comprehension strategies used by sixth-grade skilled readers to search for and locate information on the Internet. Reading Research Quarterly, 42, 214-257. Download for personal use only.
Coiro, J., Karchmer, R., & Walpole, S. (2006). Critically evaluating educational technologies for literacy learning: Current trends and new paradigms. In M. McKenna, D. Reinking, L. B. Labbo, & R. Kieffer, The Handbook of Literacy and Technology, Second Edition (pp. 145-164). Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum. Download for personal use only.
Coiro, J. (2005). Making sense of online text. Educational Leadership, 63(2), 30-35. Download for personal use only.
Coiro, J. (2005). Every teacher a Miss Rumphius: Empowering teachers with effective professional development. In Karchmer, R. A., Mallette, M., Kara-Soteriou, J., & Leu, D. J. Jr. (Eds.). New literacies for new times: Innovative models of literacy education using the Internet. Newark, DE: International Reading Association. Download for personal use only.
Coiro, J. (2003). Rethinking comprehension strategies to better prepare students for critically evaluating content on the Internet. The NERA Journal, 39, 29-34. Download for personal use only.
Coiro, J. (2003). Reading Comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies. Reading Online. [Article reprinted from The Reading Teacher, 56, 458-464]. [Online Serial]. Available at: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/rt/2-03_Column/index.html
Leu, D. J., Jr., Kinzer, C. K., Coiro, J., Cammack, D. (2004). Toward a theory of new literacies emerging from the Internet and other ICT. In R.B. Ruddell & N. Unrau (Eds.), Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, Fifth Edition (1568-1611). Newark, DE: International Reading Association. Available at: http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/leu
Leu, D. J., Jr., Coiro, J., Castek, J., Hartman, D. K., Henry, L. A., & Reinking, D. (in process). Research on instruction and assessment of the new literacies of online reading comprehension. In C. C. Block, S. Parris, and P. Afflerbach, (Eds.), Comprehension instruction: Research-based best practices. New York: Guilford Press.
The New Literacies Research Team at the University of Connecticut (2007). Thinking about our future as researchers: New literacies, new challenges, and new opportunities. In F. Falk-Ross, M. Foote, P. Linder, M.B. Sampson, S. Szabo (Eds.). The twenty-eighth yearbook of the College Reading Association. Logan, UT: College Reading Association.
