Sarah Vander Zanden, PhD

Professor, Literacy Education

Director, UNI Literacy Clinic

Sarah Vander Zanden
Location

SEC 107D

Phone
(319) 273-7270

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Sarah Vander Zanden, PhD

Professor, Literacy Education

Director, UNI Literacy Clinic

Teaching Interests

LITED 3147 Advanced Literacy Practices
LITED 3192 Experience in Literacy and Tutoring
LITED 6238 Advanced Assessment and Evaluation
ELEMCL 6201 Trends and Issues in Curriculum
LITED 1044 Children’s Literature
LITED 3140/3193 Assessment and Evaluation,
LITED 61212 Methods and Materials in Literacy Education

Research Interests

Spatialized literacy practices
Critical sociocultural theory
Critical Literacy

Professional Accomplishments

Vander Zanden, S. & Wohlwend, K. (2011) Paying Attention to Procedural Texts: Critically Reading School Routines as Embodied Achievement, Language Arts, 88(5) 337-345.

Wohlwend, K., & Vander Zanden, S., Husbye, N., & Kuby, C., (2011) Navigating Discourses in Place in the World of Webkinz, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 11(2) 141-163.

Campano, G., Honeyford, M. A., Sanchez, L., & Vander Zanden, S. (2010). Ends in themselves: Theorizing the practice of university-school partnering through horizontalidad. Language Arts, 87(4): 277-286.