About Dr. Janet Allen
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Janet
Allen is an international consultant recognized for her literacy work with
at-risk students. She is the author of many
professional books: More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy; Tools for Teaching Content
Literacy; On the Same Page: Shared
Reading Beyond the Primary Grades; Yellow
Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading; and, Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in
Grades 4-12 (Stenhouse Publishers); It's
Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy (Heinemann); and
co-author of There's Room for Me Here:
Literacy Workshop in the Middle School (Stenhouse); The Scholastic Read-Aloud Anthology (Scholastic); and, Reading History (Oxford University
Press). She is the editor of the
collection, Using Literature to Help
Troubled Teenagers Cope with End-of-Life Issues (Greenwood). Janet's first picture book, Best Little Wingman, has been published
by Boyds Mills Press. She has also written numerous professional articles and
chapters in texts related to young adult literature, teaching reading and
writing, and vocabulary instruction. Her
upcoming book is entitled Testing 1, 2,
3. . . Bridging Best Practice and High Stakes Testing.
In
addition to her professional writing, Janet has created an audio-assisted
literacy workshop published by Recorded Books: Plugged-in to Reading,
Levels for grades 5-12 and Plugged-in
to Nonfiction, for grades 4-12. She
is also a senior program consultant for McDougal Littell's LITERATURE, 6-12.
Janet
taught high school reading and English in northern Maine
from 1972 until 1992 when she relocated to Florida
to teach English and reading education courses at the University of Central
Florida. During her tenure at UCF, she directed the
Central Florida Writing Project and assisted in the creation of the Orange
County Literacy Project. Dr. Allen has received several teaching awards
including the Milken Foundation's National Educator Award.
She
is currently spending her time researching, writing, speaking, and conducting
literacy workshops, seminars and content literacy institutes across the
country. Keynotes from her four-day
literacy institutes have been recorded in a collection entitled Re-Imagining Reading (Stenhouse
Publishers).
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