Linda Kucan

Linda Kucan
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5113 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7348
EMAIL: lkucan@pitt.edu

Full Time Faculty - Assistant Professor

Kucan, L., & Palincsar, A. S. (in press). Locating struggling readers in a reconfigured landscape: A conceptual review. In M. L. Kamil, P. D. Pearson, E. B. Moje, & P. Afflerbach (eds.). Handbook of reading research (Vol. IV). New York: Routledge

McKeown, M. G., & Kucan, L. (in press). Bringing reading researchers to life: Essays in honor of Isabel Beck. New York: Guilford Press.

Kucan, L. (2009). Engaging teachers in investigating their teaching as a linguistic enterprise: The case of comprehension instruction in the context of discussion. Reading Psychology, 30(1), 51-87.
Kucan, L., Palincsar, A. S., Khasnabis, D., & Chang, C. (2009). The Video Viewing Task: A source of information for assessing and addressing teacher understanding of text-based discussions. Teaching and Teacher Education, 25, 415-423.

Brydon, M., & Kucan, L. An analysis of suggested instructional approaches for science selections in fifth grade basal reading programs. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL.
Kucan,L., & Palincsar, A. S. Designing teacher education curricula to support the development of high-leverage practices in comprehension instruction. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL.

Editorial Reviewer for Cognition and Instruction
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Editorial Reviewer for Review of Educational Research
International Reading Association (IRA)
- Editorial reviewer for Reading Research Quarterly
National Reading Conference (NRC)
- Editorial Review Board for Journal of Literacy Research
- Reviewer of conference proposals.
- Editorial Review Board for NRC Yearbook
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)
- editorial reviewer

I am a consultant for WGBH, Boston public television network, on a program called MARTHA SPEAKS which focuses on vocabulary development for 3-6 year- old children.

Teacher Quality--Reading and Writing grant awarded by Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Kucan, L., & Palincsar, A. S. The iterative design of modules to support reading comprehension instruction. ($1,387,000)
Kucan, L. Verizon Foundation Grant. The effects of differentiated tasks on learning from text. ($17,000)