About Dr. Janet Allen
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| Dr. Janet Allen |
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Janet
Allen is an international consultant recognized for her literacy work with
at-risk students. 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 the author of numerous professional books: Inside
Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary; 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 editor of the collection, Using
Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with End-of-Life Issues (Greenwood).
Janet
recently published her first picture book, Best
Little Wingman (Boyds Mills Press). Her forthcoming books are titled Testing 1, 2 3. . . Bridging Best Practice
and High-Stakes Assessment and Jump-Start
the Brain! Thinking into and through Content Learning (Stenhouse). Keynotes
from Janet's four-day It's Never Too Late
literacy institutes have been recorded in a collection entitled Re-Imagining Reading (Stenhouse
Publishers). She has also written
numerous professional articles and chapters in texts related to young adult
literature, teaching reading and writing, and vocabulary instruction. For three years, she was the editor of a
continuing column in Voices from the
Middle, "The Word Market."
In
addition to the professional resources above, she has recently authored a
complete audio-assisted literacy workshop program, Plugged-in to Reading, for
Recorded Books. The program encompasses
three grade level clusters (5-7, 7-9, 9-12) and is comprised of books, audio
and teaching resources for direct instruction through core novels;
peer-assisted learning through literature circles; and, guided practice through
independent reading. Each level of the
program focuses on instruction in reading, literary analysis, writing, word
study, research, communication and test-taking.
The first level of Plugged-in to
Reading Nonfiction will be published in November, 2007.
Janet
is a senior program consultant for McDougal Littell's 2008 Literature program
for grades 6-12. She is currently
spending her time researching, writing, speaking, and conducting customized seminars
and content literacy institutes across the country.
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