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Contact Information: 
Gentry - 019
Phone: (860) 486-0168 Fax: (860) 486-2994
Mobile : (860) 680-3752
Email: donald.leu@uconn.edu
Mailing Address:
New Literacies Research Lab 249 Glenbrook Rd. Storrs, CT 06269-2033
Personal Web Page Honors/Awards:
Recipient of the Maryann Manning Medal for Exemplary Leadership in Reading Research and Practice from the University of Alabama, Birmingham
Recipient of the Friday Medal for Innovation and Leadership in Education from North Carolina State University
Elected to the Reading Hall of Fame of the International Reading Association, 2007
Elected to Fellow status in the National Conference of Research in Language and Literacy, 1993
Distinguished Finalist, Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award, International Reading Association, 1981
Associations/Committees/Outreach:
Member, Board of Directors (2007-2010), International Reading Association
Former Vice President, President Elect, President, and Past President, National Reading Conference
In the News:
A Story of Achievement
Cover story in District Administration on the work of the New Literacies Research Team
E-School News: Study Aims To Improve Internet Literacy
Researchers find kids need better online academic skills
Recent Grant Award Announcement
The New Literacies Research Team
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Areas of Expertise:
Literacy & Technology
Reading Education
Cognition and Instruction
Funded Research:
Leu, D. J. & Kulikowich, J., Sedransk, N., Coiro, J. (2008). Assessing Online Reading Comprehension: The ORCA Project. U. S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.2009-2013. $2,813,127.00.
Leu, Donald J. & Reinking, David. Developing Internet Comprehension Strategies Among Adolescent Students At Risk to Become Dropouts. U. S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. 2005-8. $1,795,477.00.
Leu, Donald J., Jr., Douglas Hartman, and the New Literacies Research Team at the University of Connecticut. Evaluating the Development of Scientific Knowledge and New Forms of Reading Comprehension During Online Reading. North Central Educational Research Lab. 2005. $77,622
Leu, Donald J, Jr. (Co-PI with Charles Kinzer, Vanderbilt University; Linda Labbo, University of Georgia; William Teale, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle). Best Practices - Teacher Preparation- Technology: Connections that Enhance Children's Literacy Acquisition and Reading Achievement. National Science Foundation (Grant No. REC-0089221), 2000-2006. $5,500,000.
Hartman, D., Leu, D.J., Olson, M.R., Truxam, M.P. Reading and writing to learn with the “new literacies”: Preparing a new generation of teachers and researchers to develop literate American adolescents. Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2005. $100,000.
Selected Publications/Presentations:
Coiro, J., Knoble, M., Lankshear, C., Leu, D. J. (2008) Handbook of research on new literacies. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwaw, NJ.
Leu, D. J., Coiro, J., Castek, J., Hartman, D., Henry, L.A., & Reinking, D. (2008). Research on instruction and assessment in the new literacies of online reading comprehension. In Cathy Collins Block, Sherri Parris, & Peter Afflerbach (Eds.). Comprehension instruction: Research-based best practices. New York: Guilford Press.
Leu, D. J., Zawilinski, L., Castek, J., Banerjee, M., Housand, B., Liu, Y., and O’Neil. M (2007). What is new about the new literacies of online reading comprehension? In A. Berger, L. Rush, & J. Eakle (Eds.). Secondary school reading and writing: What research reveals for classroom practices. National Council of Teachers of English/National Conference of Research on Language and Literacy: Chicago, IL.
Leu, D.J., Jr., Castek, J., Henry, L. A., Coiro, J., & McMullan, M. (2004). The lessons that children teach us: Integrating children’s literature and the new literacies of the Internet. The Reading Teacher, 57, 496-503.
Leu, D.J., Jr., Kinzer, C.K., Coiro, J., Cammack, D. (2004). Toward a theory of new literacies emerging from the Internet and other information and communication technologies. In R.B. Ruddell & N. Unrau (Eds.), Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, Fifth Edition (1568-1611). International Reading Association: Newark, DE.
Leu, D. J., Jr., Leu, D. D. & Coiro, J. (2004). Teaching with the Internet: New literacies for new times (4th ed.).Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon.
Schrader, P. G., Leu, D. J., Kinzer, C. K., Ataya, R., Teale, W. H., Labbo, L. D., & Cammack, D. (2003). Using Internet delivered video cases, to support pre-service teachers' understanding of effective early literacy instruction: An exploratory study. Instructional Science: An International Journal of Learning and Cognition. 31: 317–340,
Leu, D. J., Jr. & Kinzer, C. K. (2002). Effective literacy instruction (5th edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Leu, D. J., Jr. (2000). Literacy and technology: Deictic consequences for literacy education in an information age. In M. L. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, P. D. Pearson, and R. Barr (Eds.) Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III (pp. 743-770). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum
Leu, D. J., Jr. & Kinzer, C. K. (2000). The convergence of literacy instruction and networked technologies for information and communication. Reading Research Quarterly, 35, 108-127.
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