Overview

Overview

Webinar Plan

Participants will leave the webinar with:

• A better understanding of how and why students are struggling with reading.
• A pedagogical framework within which students develop a repertoire of reading strategies, apply these to different kinds of kinds of texts, and have opportunities to reflect on this process so that students are positioned to transfer what they are learning about reading.
• Strategies and assignments that help make students’ reading practices visible so instructors and students can work together on them.

Webinar Leader Bios

Dr. Ellen Carillo is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the Writing Program Coordinator at its Waterbury Campus. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition and literature, and she is the author of Securing a Place for Reading in Composition: The Importance of Teaching for Transfer (Utah State UP, 2015). Carillo’s scholarship, which primarily focuses on reading-writing connections, has been published in WLN; Rhetoric Review; Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy; Feminist Teacher; Currents in Teaching and Learning; and in several edited collections. Ellen is co-founder of the Role of Reading in Composition Studies Special Interest Group of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).

Dr. Alice Horning is a professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University, where she holds a joint appointment in Linguistics. Her research over her entire career has focused on the intersection of reading and writing, focusing lately on the increasing evidence of students’ reading difficulties and how to address them in writing courses and across the disciplines. Horning’s work has appeared in the major professional journals and in books published by Parlor Press and Hampton Press. Her most recent books include Reading, Writing, and Digitizing: Understanding Literacy in the Electronic Age (2012, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and Reconnecting Reading and Writing co-edited with Beth Kraemer (2013, WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press.) Her forthcoming book is What is College Reading?, co-edited with Cynthia Haller and Deborah-Lee Gollnitz.