PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
Vocabulary Connections: Deepening Students’ Expressive and Academic Vocabulary by Mary Ehrenworth
Have you longed not only to teach vocabulary but to teach it in deep, systemic, lasting ways, that embrace inquiry, research, criticality, and joy? Through Vocabulary Connections, your students will learn to collect and apply literary vocabulary. They will learn a repertoire of writing about reading strategies for deepening literary vocabulary, close reading, and literary conversations. They will dive into a study of etymology, cognates, and compound words, as well as a deep study of morphology. They will become flexible word solvers and creators as they learn to collect and apply domain vocabulary and develop expertise in attending to varied and subtle context clues not only to acquire domain vocabulary, but to comprehend more complex nonfiction texts
The Civically Engaged Classroom: Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change by Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, et al.
Are your students ready to become the engaged and informed citizens our democracy needs right now? Your classroom can be a place for them to experience what it means to live in community with others, to balance their own interests with those of the group, to challenge themselves to overcome differences, and to ask the questions that help them understand the crux of an issue.
Essential Research Skills for Teens by Mary Ehrenworth, Marc Todd, and Pablo Wolfe
Support young adult researchers in becoming close and critical nonfiction readers, as well as critical consumers of media. Learn the high leverage habits and skills that teens display who are particularly successful in academic, content classes, such as being part of study groups, note-taking, and researching independently, and learn to democratize these essential skills for all your students. Along the way, learn more about teaching criticality, especially with digital literacies.
Critical Literacy: Unlocking Contemporary Fiction by Mary Ehrenworth, Sonia Cherry-Paul, and Heather Burns
Dare to teach your students critical literacies, so that they see more in the texts they read, investigate representation and hidden meaning, and consider how texts influence society and vice versa. Make reading a deeply personal experience. And introduce your students to the geniuses of their generation, the Young Adult authors who are writing for them. Along the way, your students will fall in love with reading, with book clubs, and with the role books can play in their lives.
RECENT BOOKS
RECENT ARTICLES
Ehrenworth, M.& Seyfried, P. “Precision Coaching: Using AI to Refine Your Feedback Process.” Literacy Now. International Literacy Association. October 2024.
Cherry-Paul, S., Cruz, C., & Ehrenworth, M. “Revisiting reading workshop: Autonomy, liberation, and... love.” Educational Leadership, February 2020.
Ehrenworth, M. & Roman, A., “Joyful vocabulary acquisition: New pedagogies for developing children’s literary vocabulary (and their narrative analysis).” In A. Reyes-Torres, M. Brisk & Manel Lacorte, Multiliteracies, Multimodality and Learning by Design in Second Language Learning and Teacher Education. New York: Routledge. (in press, fall, 2024).
Ehrenworth, M., & Akhmedjanova, D. “Creating transformative performance assessment systems in writing and harnessing them as professional development.” In H. Andrade, R. Bennett, & G. Cizek, Handbook of Formative Assessment in the Disciplines. New York: Routledge, 2019.