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Campus: Skokie
Email: cblachowicz@nl.edu
Phone: 224.233.2558
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Biography
Camille Blachowicz is professor of Education at National College of Education of NLU. Her research has been supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation, the Fulbright Council and the International Reading Association. Blachowicz's many articles have been published in journals ranging from Educational Leadership, Reading Teacher to Reading Research Quarterly. She is also co-author of the books Reading Diagnosis: An Instructional Approach , Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms , Reading Comprehension: Strategies for Independent Learners, Reading Street, Fluency Development: From Research to Practice and the chapter on vocabulary research for the third Handbook of Reading Research along with numerous book chapters and monographs.
Blachowicz also co-edits the series of staff development and in-service books, Tools for Teaching Literacy along with Donna Ogle. In 2003, she was named to the roster of Outstanding Teacher Educators in Reading by the International Reading Association and co- directs the Literacy Partners Staff Development Project in the Chicago Public Schools.
Education
Ph.D. Northwestern UniversityPublications
Buhle, R., & Blachowicz, C.L.Z. (December, 2008). "The Assessment Double Play," Educational Leadership, ASCD: Alexandria, Va., 42-46.
Berne, J, & Blachowicz, C.L.Z. (2009). “What reading teachers say about vocabulary instruction: voices from the classroom.” The Reading Teacher, Vol. 62, No. 4 December 2008/January 2009, 314-323.
Blachowicz, C., Fisher, P. Ogle, D & Watts-Taffe, S. (2006). “Vocabulary: Questions from the classroom.” Reading Research Quarterly, 41(4), 524-539.
Frost, S., Buhle, R. & Blachowicz, C.L.Z. (in press) Action Tools for the Literacy Professional. ASCD: Alexandria, Md.
Blachowicz, C. &Ogle, D. (2007). Reading Comprehension: Strategies for Independent Learners, 2nd ed. New York: Guilford.
Blachowicz, C. & Cobb, C. (2007). Action Tools: Vocabulary in the Content Areas. Alexandria , Va.: ASCD.
Presentations
Arkansas Reading Association Conference, November 20, 2008, Keynote, A Window on Vocabulary Across the Curriculum
Milwaukee Catholic Educators' Conference, October 10, 2008 Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Keynote -Vocabulary Across the Curriculum Alaska State Literacy Conference, October 14, 2007.
Vocabulary Across the Curriculum, International Reading Association, May, 4, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia.
Keynote- Vocabulary Visits, Vocabulary Across the Curriculum, Wisconsin Reading Association, Feb. 8, 2008.
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