Exploring Diverse Elementary Students' Literacy Development in a Literacy Club

dc.contributor.advisorKim, Koomi
dc.contributor.advisorWiencek, Joyce
dc.contributor.advisorWilliamson, Thea
dc.contributor.authorLeibu, Beth
dc.contributor.departmentDoctoral Studies in Literacy
dc.contributor.programDoctor of Education (Ed.D.) Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Instruction: Literacy
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-29T19:07:41Z
dc.date.available2025-04-29T19:07:41Z
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.description.abstractThis study explored diverse students’ literacy development in Grades 3–5 in a literacy club. It also served as a self-study to examine how I developed and facilitated this literacy club. This study focused on a group of diverse students engaged in a literacy club across two study phases. The first phase consisted of an after-school literacy club pre-COVID-19 and the second phase occurred in an online literacy club during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings from this study suggest that diverse students benefited from co-creating the literacy events in the literacy club. Students developed their literacy through socioculturaly engaging literacy activities, which enabled them to have choice and ownership of their literacy events. Students learned from and through their peer collaboration and dialogic exchanges around culturally relevant topics to include social justice, racism, and inequity to promote their literacy development. Students benefited from opportunities to discuss their own cultural identities and use their rich socio-cultural and lived experiences to foster their literacy development. Additionally, findings suggest that these diverse students applied multimodal literacies as tools to further their literacy development. This study contributes to the current research related to literacy development, diverse students, culturally responsive pedagogy, and literacy practices in elementary schools.
dc.format.extent197 pages
dc.genredissertations
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2aizc-3ine
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/38134
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtSalisbury Universityen_US
dc.subjectLiteracy
dc.subjectLiteracy development
dc.subjectLiteracy clubs
dc.subjectCulturally responsive pedagogy
dc.subjectElementary students
dc.titleExploring Diverse Elementary Students' Literacy Development in a Literacy Club
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