Area 5: Early and Elementary Literacy Processes

Maria Paula Ghiso, Teachers College, Columbia University

A Formative Experiment of Culturally Responsive Writing Workshop in a Grades 3-5 Title 1 School - Margaret Carmody Hagood, College of Charleston

Growth Mindset and At-Risk Children’s Writing Achievement: A Hidden Key to Social Transformation? - Beau Michael Whitsett, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Sherry Bell, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“I Play Around to Find the Just-Right Word”: An Analysis of Three Fifth-Grade Students’ Word Choice Decisions in Composition in a Vocabulary-Rich, Reading-and-Writing Classroom - James F Baumann, University of Missouri, emeritus; Christine A. Mallozzi, University of Kentucky; Donna Ware, Clarke County (Georgia) School District, retired