Kathryn A. Prater

Curriculum Vitae

August 2005

 

Home Address:                                                  Office Address:

7065 W. Friendly Ave.                                  The University of North Carolina Greensboro

Apt. E                                                                          School of Education, Curry 345

Greensboro, NC 27410                                Dept of Curriculum & Instruction       

(512) 917-2975                                                   PO Box 26170

                                                                                          Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

                                                                                          (336) 334-3436

Current Position:

August 2005                                                           Assistant Professor

                                                                                          Department of Curriculum & Instruction

                                                                                          Literacy Education                                           

 

Former Position:

August 2003 to July 2005                           Social Science/Humanities Researcher V

Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at The University of Texas at Austin

Educational Background:

2003                        Ph.D.                                        The University of Texas at Austin,

Curriculum and Instruction,

Language and Literacy Studies

 

1989                        MLA                                         Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

ESL/Bilingual Teaching Certification

 

1985                        B.S.                                           The University of Texas at Austin

                                                                                          Elementary Education

RESEARCH

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

Worthy, J., Prater, K., & Pennington, J. L. (2004). “It’s a program that looks good on paper”: The challenge of America Reads. Journal of Literacy Research. 35 (3) (pp. 879-910).

Worthy, J. & Prater, K. (2002). “I thought about it all night”: Readers’ theater for reading fluency and motivation. Reading Teacher, 56, 3, 294-297.

 

 

Dissertation:

Readers’ Theater is “so much more than fluency”:

Collaborative work among teacher, students and researcher.               August 2003                                        

University of Texas at Austin

Chair: Mary Jo Worthy, Ph.D.

 

 

 

In Press Publication:

 

Linan-Thompson, S., Vaughn, S.R., Prater, K., & Cirino, P. (in press). The response to intervention of English language learners at-risk for reading problems. Journal of Learning Disabilities.

Research Writing in Progress:

Currently engaged in the following research activities:

1)                    Writing article for peer reviewed journal focusing on using readers’ theater as an intervention to develop fluency

2)                    Analyzing data relating to reading engagement and motivation using qualitative methods

3)                    Developing a framework to analyze data regarding researcher-teacher collaborative research

 

Conference Presentations:

 

National Reading Conference, December 2004. Teacher inquiry as teacher research.

National Reading Conference, December 2004. Vaughn, S., Linan-Thompson, S., & Prater, K. Enhancing the literacy and oracy development of English language learners.

National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems, National Research Conference, November 2004, Scottsdale, AZ. Vaughn, S., Linan-Thompson, S., Prater, K. & Cirino, P. The response to intervention of English language learners at risk for reading problems.

National Reading Conference, December 2003. Prater, K. A. Readers’ theater leaves no child behind.

National Reading Conference, December, 1999. Worthy, M.J., Linan-Thompson, S.,& Hooper (Prater), K. Home literacy practices of Hispanic families.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEACHING

 

Current Teaching Responsibilities:

Reading Education (juniors)

Reading Education (seniors)

                 

 

Teaching Experience in the Public Schools:

Fourteen years as an elementary school teacher in urban schools with culturally and linguistically diverse populations

Experience in grades K, 1, 2

 

Second grade teacher

Dallas, TX Dallas Public Schools                                                             1985-1990

 

Bilingual/ESL classroom teacher                                                              1990-1996                           

Dallas, TX Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD

(1^st grade, 2^nd grade, 1/2nd multi-age)

 

Kindergarten teacher                                                                                             1996-1998, 2001-2002

Austin, TX Austin ISD