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Nell Duke A Notable Literacy Educator

Nell Duke. Duke Is a contemporary literacy educator. Her seminal study 3.6 Minutes per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade was published in 2000.She is currently an associate professor of education at Michigan State University Her educational background is in education and linguistics Her seminal study on the lack of informational text in 1st grade classrooms has influenced literacy instruction today. .

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Nell Duke A Notable Literacy Educator

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    1. Nell Duke A Notable Literacy Educator

    2. Nell Duke Duke Is a contemporary literacy educator. Her seminal study 3.6 Minutes per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade was published in 2000. She is currently an associate professor of education at Michigan State University Her educational background is in education and linguistics Her seminal study on the lack of informational text in 1st grade classrooms has influenced literacy instruction today.

    3. The field of literacy education now recognizes that there is a scarcity of expository texts in the primary grades and that this must be changed in order to address students’ needs. Educational publishers such as Houghton Mifflin have begun including more expository texts within their elementary reading programs due in part to Nell Duke’s research findings and the implications thereof.

    4. Seminal Study In her study 3.6 Minutes per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade Duke analyzed 20 first-grade classrooms. Ten of the classes were in very low socioeconomic areas and the other 10 were in very wealthy areas. What she found was that in those 20 classrooms, teachers spent an average of 3.6 minutes in the entire school day with informational texts.

    5. The importance of informational texts in primary grades: Teaching a variety of genres, and explicitly instructing and making available informational text may help avoid the fourth grade slump that is often found within socio-economically disadvantaged classrooms. A recent study cites that 96 percent of the text on the Internet is expository. "So we have a pretty good sense why this is important," she says. "You've got to be able to read informational texts to be able to function on the Web and lots of other technological environments." Some students prefer expository text. Giving these students access to this type of reading material may improve their desire to read.

    6. “Young children can be successful with informational texts and texts other than the traditional narrative.”- Nell Duke

    7. Nell Duke is a contemporary literacy scholar specializing in analyzing literacy instruction and development in socio-economically disadvantaged areas. “Advice for new teachers working in low socio=economic areas in a few words: As much as possible, surround yourself literally and virtually (that is, by reading research on them, watching videotapes, and the like) with outstanding teachers of low-SES students. Look at what those teachers do and what their students accomplish; and expect that much from yourself and your students.”

    8. “Stuff you might read: I've co-written two articles and co-written a book that are aimed at graduate students so you might want to check those out -- Duke and Beck, 1999; Duke and Mallette, 2001, Duke and Mallette, 2003 (you'll see these on my vita, which is on my website, though that vita is due for an update!). Recent short pieces like that in American Educator summarizes a lot of work by me and others. Article by Pressley, me, and others in Harvard Ed Review is somewhat provocative and might get some discussion going. A new book -- Literacy and the Youngest Learner: Best Practices for Early Childhood Educators -- is intended for educators 0 - 5 and might be interesting to you if you have a special interest in that age range. “ Nell Duke

    9. Books by Nell Duke:

    10. “That's a hard one in that I decided I wanted to be a teacher when I was 5 years old and never strayed from that. I had decided on a doctorate in educational psychology with an emphasis on reading by fifth grade! Yes, I was (and am?) a nerd!!!  Reading has always been my great love so I think the focus on that was a natural for me. In terms of a focus on low-income students, my elementary school had a very large population of low-income students and depending on how you define it, I was low-income myself, so it probably started there. But then as I became older this focus was reinforced by a concern with issues of social justice.” Nell Duke

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    12. Websites Nell Dukes own website: http://www.msu.edu/~nkduke/ http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/NewEd/Fall99/profile2.htm http://www.ciera.org/news/archives/2000/20000305nellduke.html http://www.msularc.org/nkduke.htm

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