Jennifer Wilson Clayton Leishman John Robertson The University of South Carolina

 What are the pedagogical/research recent trends in early adolescent literacy as reported/documented in NCTE, IRA, and NMSA professional journals? ◦ What type of research is most prominent? ◦ How is early adolescent literacy defined? ◦ What gaps exist? ◦ How is our work situated within the literature?

 Heurmenetics Phenonomology ( Moustaks, date?)  Grounded Theory (Glaser & Straus, date)  Early Adolescence (Turning Points, 2000)  Literature Reviews of Adolescent Literacy (Cassidy, Garret, Bareer, 2006; Roe, 2008)

 Journal Selection  Article Selection  Data Collection Form  Inter-reliabity  Data Analysis

Methodology  Journal selection  Middle School Journal  Research in Middle Level Education Online  Middle Ground  Voices from the Middle  Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy  Language Arts  English Journal  Reading and Research Quarterly  Research in the Teaching of English

Methodology  Parameters for article selection  Featured articles  Grades 5-9  418 articles  Definition literacy: (New London group)

Methodology  Data Collection tool  Rubric/Checklist  Bibliographic information  Type of research  Grade Level  Demographic data  Categories  Summary  General Review

Methodology  Inter-relalibity (cite)  Initial trial form  Monthly on anomolies/outliers/ vague

Methodology  Data Analysis  Checklist data entered into SPSS  Frequency charts created  Collapse data

 “What’s Hot” ◦ Comprehension (12.2) ◦ ELL (13.9) ◦ Content Literacy (11) ◦ Vocabulary (9.3)  “What’s not Hot, but should be Hot” ◦ Critical Literacy (14.6) ◦ Diversity (14.4) ◦ Writing (28) ◦ Technology (13.2) ◦ Motivation (8.1)

 Fairbanks, C.M. (2006). The role of social and cultural resources in literacy and schooling: Three contrasting cases. Research in the Teaching of English, 40(3),  Campano, G. (2005). The second class: Providing space in the margins. Language Arts, 82(3),  Frank, C., Arroyo, M., & Land, R. (2004).The ethnography book. Language Arts, 81(5),

 We agree with Roe, the dearth of empirical on early adolescent literacy  Deepen our of diversity  Rethink how we define early adolescent literacy-move beyond content area literacy and vocabulary and create a more comprehensive understanding

 Pilot Study  Clear Timelines  Consistent Tracking Methods  Data Collection (Collecting more quality data than you think you need)  Questions are going to change as the study evolves  Using technology from the beginning and more consistently