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Julie Coiro, Assistant Professor

(401) 874-4872
Fax 874-5471
jcoiro@mail.uri.edu

  

 

 

Education

Ph.D.

Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut

2007

M.Ed.

Curriculum & Instruction, University of New Orleans

1993

B.S.

Special Education PreK-12, University of Connecticut

1989

Courses taught

EDC 423

Teaching Comprehension and Response in the Elementary School

EDC 424

Teaching Literacy in the Elementary School

EDC 448

Literacy Practices for Content Subjects

EDC 565

Advanced Reading Research Seminar

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 - See also http://uri.academia.uri/JulieCoiro

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. (2009). Promising practices for supporting adolescents' online literacy development.  In K.D. Wood and W.E. Blanton (Eds.). Promoting literacy with adolescent learners: Research-based instruction (pp. 442-471). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Coiro, J. (2009). Rethinking reading assessment in a digital age: How is reading comprehension different and where do we turn now? Educational Leadership, 66(6), 59-63.

Coiro, J. (under review). Evaluating the psychological reality of new literacies: To what extent are new reading comprehension skills and strategies required on the Internet? Reading Research Quarterly.

Castek, J., Leu, D. J., Jr., Coiro, J., Gort, M., Henry, L. A., & Lima, C. (2008). Developing new literacies among multilingual learners in the elementary grades. In L. Parker (Ed.) Technology-mediated learning environments for young English learners: Connections In and out of school. Mahwah, NJ. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
 

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. (2008).  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.

 

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