{"id":8166,"date":"2019-04-22T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/24\/education-professor-katie-kelly-co-authors-new-book\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:20:49","slug":"education-professor-katie-kelly-co-authors-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/education-professor-katie-kelly-co-authors-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Professor Katie Kelly co-authors new book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furman Associate Professor of Education Katie Kelly has published a new book with co-author Lester Laminack, consultant and professor emeritus at Western Carolina University.<\/p>\n

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Kelly joined the Furman faculty in 2012. Laminack is professor emeritus at Western Carolina University.<\/p><\/div>\n

The book, \u201cReading to Make a Difference: Using Literature to Help Students Speak Freely, Think Deeply, and Take Action,\u201d is published by Heinemann.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the book, the authors build on the work of Professor Emerita at The Ohio State University Rudine Sims Bishop, extending the notion of books as windows, mirrors and doors. Kelly and Laminack offer a pathway that can lead students to take action for social justice causes. They show teachers how to move beyond exposing students to diverse children\u2019s literature by offering\u00a0an instructional framework that is\u00a0applicable to any topic and adaptable to any classroom or community.<\/p>\n

Each chapter highlights different classrooms in action and concludes with a wealth of suggested resources, both picture books and chapter books, along with guidelines on how to choose text sets that reflect the needs, interests and backgrounds of students.<\/p>\n

Kelly joined the Furman Department of Education in 2012 and coordinates the university\u2019s graduate program in literacy. She has authored numerous book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals including The Reading Teacher, Literacy Research and Instruction, Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, and Journal of Language and Literacy Education.<\/p>\n

She co-authored her first book with Karen Wood and Bruce Taylor, \u201cSmuggling Writing: Strategies That Get Students to Write Every Day, in Every Content Area, Grades 3\u201312\u201d (Corwin, 2015). Her second book, \u201cFrom Pencils to Podcasts: Digital Tools for Transforming K-6 Literacy Practices,\u201d was co-authored by Lindsay Yearta and published by Solution Tree in 2016.<\/p>\n

Kelly is the co-editor for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Early Childhood Education Assembly\u2019s journal, Provocations and Perspectives, and is a reviewer for NCTE\u2019s journal, Voices From the Middle, the Georgia Journal of Reading, and The Journal of Teacher Action Research.<\/p>\n

Kelly received a bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education from the State University of New York at Cortland. She holds a master\u2019s in reading education and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction in urban literacy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Reading to Make a Difference<\/a>. Or for more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107, and vince.moore@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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