Dr. Norton-Meier's curriculum vita

Educational Background

• PhD, Language, Literacy and Culture Early Childhood/Elementary Education, University of Iowa, 1998
• MA, Early Childhood Education, University of Iowa, 1995
• B.S., Child, Parent and Community Services, Iowa State University, 1986

Teaching Areas

• Literacy Research and Methodology
• Foundations of Literacy Instruction
• Teaching of Reading and Language Arts in the Primary Grades
• Discourse in Classrooms

Research Interests

• Principal Investigator. The Iowa Science Literacy Project: Research studies of inquiry-based science and literacy, Iowa State University. 2004-present.
• Principal Investigator. Play, literacy, and the pursuit of happiness: An ethnographic study across the life span, Iowa State University. 2003-present.

Service

• Iowa State University Early Childhood Coordinating Committee, 2003 to present
• Iowa State University Literacy Team Member, 2003-present
• Iowa State University Freshman Honors Mentoring Program, Mentor, 2004 - present
• Iowa State University Coherence Ad Hoc Committee, 2008
• National Council of Teachers of English, Ramon Veal Seminar for Research in Progress, Leadership Team, 2005-2008.
• National Reading Conference, Proposal Reviewer, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2009

Professional Memberships

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• National Council of Teachers of English
• International Reading Association
• National Reading Conference
• National Association for the Education of Young Children

Selected Publications

• Norton-Meier, L., Hand, B., Hockenberry, L. & Wise, K. (2008). Questions, claims, & evidence: The important place of argument in children’s science writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Hand, B., Norton-Meier, L., Staker, J. & Bintz, J. (2009). Negotiating Science: The critical role of argument in student inquiry. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Cavagnetto, A., Hand, B., & Norton-Meier, L. (2009). The nature of elementary student science discourse in the context of the Science Writing Heuristic approach. International Journal of Science Education. Retrieved July 26, 2009, from http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/09500690802627277
• Norton-Meier, L., Drake, C., Tidwell, M. (2009). Writing a Mathematics Community: A Pen Pal Inquiry Project. Language Arts. 86(4). 245-256.
• Norton-Meier, L. (2009). In defense of crappy literature: When the book is bad but the literary thinking is rich! Language Arts. 86(3). 188-195.
• Norton-Meier, L., Hand, B., Cavagnetto, A., Akkus, R., & Gunel, M. (2009). Pedagogy, implementation and professional development for teaching science literacy: How students and teacher know and learn. In M. C. Shelley II, L. D. Yore, & B. Hand (Eds.), Quality research in literacy and science education: International perspectives and gold standards (pp. 169-188). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
• Norton-Meier, L. (2008). Creating border convergence between science and language: A case for the Science Writing Heuristic. In Hand, B., Science Inquiry, Argument and Language: The case for the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH). Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense Publishers.