Rebecca Norman

Degrees
Doctor of Philosophy, Michigan State University
Master of Arts, the Ohio State University
Bachelor of Science, Bucknell University

Courses
ED 2120
ED 5710

Research interests
Community-Based Literacy
Multimodal Literacy
Comprehension
Informational text
Visual literacy

Memberships and Professional Associations
Literacy Research Association Area 5 Chair
Mid-Hudson Reading Council Vice President of Programming

Publications

• Norman, R.R. (2020). Engaging boys in literacy and elementary school. Michigan Reading Journal, 52(2), 49-54.
• Equity in access? The number of the books available in grades 1, 3, and 5 classroom libraries
  Rebecca Norman, T.S. Hodges, K.L. Wright, K.L. Roberts, J. Coleman
  Learning Environments Research, October 2019, v22, n3, p427-441
• Engaging learners in multimodal meaning making to inspire writing
  Rebecca Norman, J. Bixler
  Michigan Reading Journal, Spring 2018, v50, n3, p. 30-39
• If you’re writing about animals, don’t talk about lollipops: children’s views on writing informational text
  Rebecca Norman, K.L. Roberts
  Journal of the New England Reading Association, 2017, v52, n2, p1-10
• Don't forget the pictures: using graphical devices to learn about space
  Rebecca Norman, Meghan E. Bauer, Jennifer J. Benfer
  Michigan Reading Journal, 2016, v49, n1, p18-32
• Third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students' perceptions of practices of strong readers of informational text
  Rebecca Norman, K.L. Roberts
  Journal of the New England Reading Association, 2015, v50, n2, p14-24
• Diagrams, timelines, and tables, oh, my! Fostering graphical literacy
  Rebecca Norman, Kathryn L. Roberts, Nell K. Duke, Paul Morsink, Nicole M. Martin, Jennifer A. Knight
  The Reading Teacher, v67, n1, September 2013, p12-24
• Beyond concepts of print: development of concepts of graphics in text, PreK to grade 3
  Rebecca Norman, N.K. Duke, N.M. Martin, J.A.  Knight, K.L. Roberts, P.M. M orsink, & S.L. Calkins
  Research in the Teaching of English, v48, n2, November 2013, p175-203. 
• Not just pretty pictures
  Rebecca Norman, Kathryn L. Roberts
  Educational Leadership, v71, n3, November 2013, p62-66
• Evaluating texts for graphical literacy instruction
  Rebecca Norman, Kathryn L. Roberts, Kristy Bruger
  The Reading Teacher, v68, n4, 2014, p312-318
• Practicing what we preach:relationships between third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade teachers’ beliefs and practices related to genre
  Rebecca Norman, Kathryn L. Roberts
  Michigan Reading Journal, v47, n1, 2014,p6-13
• Relationship between graphical device comprehension and overall text comprehension for third-grade children
  Rebecca Norman, Kathryn L. Roberts, Jaime Cocco
  Reading Psychology, v36, n5, 2015, p389-420
• Getting the bigger picture: children's utilization of graphics and text
  Rebecca Norman, Kathryn L. Roberts
  Journal of Visual Literacy, v34, n1, 2015, p35-55

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