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
numerous professional books. Her most
recent book is More Tools for Teaching
Content Literacy (Stenhouse, October, 2008).
Other publications include: Inside
Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary 4-12; 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 other writing includes diverse contributions
to the profession. She has also written numerous professional articles and
chapters in texts related to young adult literature, teaching reading and
writing, and vocabulary instruction. Her most recent contribution to an edited
collection is included in Adolescent
Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (Beers, Probst & Rief,
Heinemann, 2007). For three years, Janet wrote a continuing
column in Voices from the Middle, "The
Word Market." In addition, she has recently published her first picture book, Best Little Wingman (Boyds Mills Press). 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).
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