Email:taffy@uic.edu
Office:1234 EPASW
Phone 312.355.4178
Fax 312.996.8134
Taffy E. Raphael is a member of the Curriculum & Instruction faculty in Literacy Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, teaching courses related to methods of instruction, teacher research, and related topics. Prior to joining the UIC faculty, Dr. Raphael has taught and conducted research at the University of Utah (1980-1982), Michigan State University (1982-1997), and Oakland University (1997-2001). Dr. Raphael's work in teacher education was recognized by her receipt of the Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award from the International Reading Association, May, 1997. Dr. Raphael's research has focused on Question Answer Relationships and strategy instruction in writing, and, for the past decade, Book Club, a literature-based reading program. Throughout these research projects, she has studied teacher learning and professional development through teacher study groups. She received Oakland University's Research Excellence Award in September, 2000. She has published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Reading Teacher, and Language Arts. She has coauthored and edited several books on literacy instruction, including The Book Club Connection: Literacy Learning and Classroom Talk (Teachers College Press, 1997), Book Club: A literature-based Curriculum (Small Planet Communications 1997, 2002) and Book Club for Middle School (Small Planet Communications, 2001); and Literature-Based Instruction: Reshaping the Curriculum (Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc., 1998). She is coauthor of Super QAR for Testwise Students published by Wright Group (2002). She has served as National Reading Conference Board member, treasurer and president, as well as on the editorial board of Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research Quarterly, Language Arts, and the review board for The Reading Teacher. She was selected for the International Reading Association Reading Hall of Fame in 2002.
VITA (in pdf format)
Selected Publications
Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia :Questioning
CIERA Report #3-015 "Book Club Plus: A Conceptual Framework to
Organize Literacy Instruction"
by Taffy Raphael, Susan Florio-Ruane, and MariAnne George
http://www.ciera.org/library/reports/inquiry-3/3-015/3-015.htm
Toward a More Complex View of Balance in the Literacy Curriculum
Re-Engaging Youngsters with Reading Difficulties
By Means Of Innovative Professional Development
2002 Presentations (in Powerpoint, get viewer below)
Assessing Students Progress in Book Club+
Book Club +: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking, Comprehension, and Writing, NYSRA 2002
Super QAR for Test-wise Students, 11-2002
QAR Bibliography
CCIRA Final
Book Club: Making Literature Come Alive in the Classroom
IRA Preconvention Institute 2003 - Connected Learning Experiences
IRA Hall of Fame 2003.
CIE 555 Syllabus Fall 2002
CIE 555 Scoring Form Memoirs
CIE 555 Article List
CIE 585 Syllabus Fall 2002
CIE 585 Rubric for CIE 585 Assignment 1
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