My mission is to empower middle and high school students to reach their full literacy and learning potential.
I strive to achieve this through my teaching, instructional leadership, research, and active participation in research/practice collaborations.
My mission is to empower middle and high school students to reach their full literacy and learning potential.
I strive to achieve this through my teaching, instructional leadership, research, and active participation in research/practice collaborations.
Lawrence, J. F., & Thorbjørnsen, J. M. (2022). Leseforståelse i skolen: Å utvikle elevers kritiske tenkning gjennom lesing, argumentasjon og debatt. In V. Grøver I. Bråten (Eds.), Leseforståelse i skolen: Utfordringer og muligheter (pp. 130-142). Oslo, Norway: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Yang, J., & Lawrence, J. (2022). Multimodal Literacies at Home: A Survey Study of Chinese-Norwegian Bilingual Children. Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals: Beyond Print-Centric Practices, 105.
Yang, J., Lawrence, J. F., & Grøver, V. (2022). Parental expectations and home literacy environment: A questionnaire study of Chinese-Norwegian dual language learners. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 37(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2022.2098427
Lawrence, J. F., Hagen, Å.M., Hwang, J.K., Lin, G., & Lervåg, A. (2019). Academic vocabulary and reading comprehension: exploring the relationships across measures of vocabulary knowledge. Reading and Writing, 32(2), 285–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9865-2
If your research team, organization, school district or state wants support in thinking about best practices to support support middle and high school school literacy outcomes, please reach out!