Jill Grifenhagen

Bio

Dr. Jill Grifenhagen is an Associate Professor in Literacy Education at NC State University’s College of Education. Dr. Grifenhagen’s research focuses on early language and literacy development, with a particular interest in academic vocabulary and language learning fostered by classroom practice.  Her work further explores preparation and support to improve teacher practices in language and literacy, including teacher preparation and coaching professional development. Her scholarship has been published in journals including Reading Research Quarterly, Teaching and Teacher Education, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Child Language, and The Reading Teacher. Dr. Grifenhagen earned a B.A. in Sociology and Religious Studies from UNC Chapel Hill, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College, and a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Diversity from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches literacy methods to undergraduate, pre-service elementary teachers, and courses in research and leadership to graduate students in literacy.

Courses Taught

• ELM 430 Teaching Language Arts in the Elementary School
• ELM 571 Language Arts, New Literacies, and Media
• ECI 537 Children’s Literature
• ECI 508 Teachers as Leaders
• ECI 803 Advanced Seminar in Literacy Research

Publications

• Lessons learned from remote, early-literacy instruction , JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY (2024)
• Leveraging the epistemic emotion of awe as a pedagogical tool to teach science , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION (2022)
• Reimagining Discourse in the Classroom , READING TEACHER (2022)
• University-based literacy coaches as outsiders to the rural school context , TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION (2022)
• Getting KnERDI with language: Examining teachers’ knowledge for Enhancing Reading Development in Code-Based and Meaning-Based Domains , Reading Research Quarterly (2021)
• Preparing pre-service early childhood teachers to support child language support , JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER EDUCATION (2021)
• Touch-Talk-Text: Science Practices and Language for Reading Comprehension , READING TEACHER (2021)
• Using Insights from Teachers to Inform Online Professional Development in Early Literacy Instruction , Literacy Research and Instruction (2021)
• Supporting Novice K-2 Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Literacy: Early Literacy Teacher Induction for Rural Schools , LITERACY RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION (2020)
• Academic Vocabulary Support for Elementary Science Pre-Service Teachers , Journal of Science Teacher Education (2019)

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