Getting Back to the Page & Staying There
Reading is all about knowledge; it’s not just for practice.
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Kristin Conradi Smith
Kristin Conradi Smith is an Associate Professor of Reading Education at the College of William and Mary’s School of Education. Her research falls into three strands: (1) better understanding children who struggle with reading; (2) the role of texts in the classroom; and (3) issues related to reading motivation. She has published more than twenty articles and book chapters in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Educational Psychology Review, the Reading Teacher, and Reading and Writing Quarterly.
Prior to earning her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2011, she was an elementary school teacher and coach in Camden, New Jersey and Richmond, Virginia.
Bad with Names: Why Proper Names Deserve Instructional Attention
Rare words typically make up only 5% or less of the total words in texts, but it’s often these words that get students anxious about reading.
A Whole New World of Vocabulary Instruction
Words are not only a means of communicating, but a foundation of learning.
Not All Rare Words Are Sesquipedalian!
A small part of the English vocabulary accounts for the majority of the words in the texts students read across the grades – but some of the words may surprise you.
What Does It Mean To Be A Digitally Literate Scholar?
Some thoughts for Literacy Research Association session: Opening up the ivory tower: Examining the elements of open, digitally engaged scholarship (November 28, 2018, Indian Wells, CA)
A New Kind of Leveled Text: Meeting the Needs of Challenged Readers
Short sentences and less text don’t add up to proficient reading. But that’s exactly what the current wave of leveled texts offers.
What Should Goals Be For Increasing Students’ Oral Reading Rates?
The question of how much growth to set as goals for oral reading fluency depends on the grade level and where students are in relation… Read More »What Should Goals Be For Increasing Students’ Oral Reading Rates?
Stories of Words: Computers
When computers were invented in the 1930s scientists created new words to describe the new machine. When computers became widely used by people, people began to change the words used to describe computers. Now that computers have made its way into every corner of the world, new words and definitions of old words are created with lightning speed.
Stories of Words: Toponyms
Las Vegas. New York. Pie Town. Toponyms, or the names of places, are as different as the people who have named them. By learning the story of a toponym, you also learn the story of the people who lived in that place.