Oakland University Department of Reading and Language Arts

11/10/2015

RLA professor Dr. Tanya Christ, winner of Oakland University's 2015 Teaching Excellence Award, shares stories and tips on how she engages, inspires, and connects with students at the “Teaching Award Winners” workshop held by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Congratulations to Dr. Christ on this achievement; we appreciate her valuable insight!

11/07/2015

https://youtu.be/vojwvznYyTA

Most students in this Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program are classroom teachers whose daily work requires them to deal with the literacy needs of young...

10/16/2015

https://youtu.be/KeLdBJzT36o

Oakland University Reading and Language Arts Department Faculty and Students Conference Presentations

07/09/2015

https://youtu.be/q3pTp65LVxY

We invite you to view the entire display on the 3rd floor of Pawley Hall. You can also register to join the class through the beginning of July. For more inf...

05/26/2015

https://youtu.be/e3zuIVYq3_E

What Students Have to Say about the Oakland University Reading and Language Arts MAT Program

05/12/2015

This video shows some highlights from the undergraduate service learning reading methods course (RDG 414) at the Baldwin Community Center in Pontiac, MI. Thi...

05/01/2015

Please consider participating in the first annual Hearts and Hands/Maxfield Mile 5K, May 17. Details can be found at:

https://runsignup.com/Race/MI/AuburnHills/HeartsandHands5KFunRun

We hope to see you there!

Presented by Avondale/Oakland University Partnership The Avondale/Oakland University Partnership is hosting the first annual  "Hearts and Hands" 5K Fun Run/Walk , on Sunday, May 17, 2015.  Proceeds generated from this event will help to support Avondale Education Foundation,…

04/24/2015

RLA professor Tanya Christ, and her research partner X. Christine Wang, had their recent research on digital literacy in early childhood mentioned in an Education Week blog:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2015/04/ipads_e-readers_literacy_research.html

Four pending studies presented at AERA offer surprising findings and a nuanced look at the use of iPads and e-readers with young children.

04/22/2015

RLA professor Tanya Christ received Oakland University's 2015 Teaching Excellence Award and RLA professor B**g Gee Jang received the Founders’ Day Research Award. Congratulations!

04/22/2015

Please join the Avondale/Oakland University Partnership School Learning community at the second annual Art Festival/Empty Bowls, Wednesday, April 29, from 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Auburn Elementary School. The school will be filled with works of art, each created by the students of Auburn Elementary School. Bowls, created by Art Education students and faculty members of SEHS, Oakland University, will be available for purchase. All proceeds for this event will be donated to Gleaners Food Bank.

04/02/2015

The Avondale/OU partnership school was honored to be interviewed by MPR last week.

In many undergraduate education programs, students spend a lot of time in the university classroom to prepare them for their student teaching in the final

03/22/2015

Dawnelle Henretty, a recent Reading & Language Arts doctoral graduate, was nominated for the 2014 Oakland University Outstanding Dissertation Award. Ms. Henretty‘s dissertation title is “A Grammar of Four-panel Comics: Constraints as Markers for Author Intent”.