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

*Palincsar, A. S., Spiro, R. J., Kucan, L., Magnusson, S. J., Collins, B., Hapgood, S., Ramchandran, A., DeFrance, N., & Gelpi-Lomangino, A. (2007). Research to practice: Designing a hypermedia environment to support elementary teachers' learning of robust comprehension instruction. In D. S. McNamara (Ed.), Reading comprehension strategies: Theory, interventions, and technologies (pp. 441-462. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
*Kucan, L. (2008). Multigenre reading/writing in the content areas. In D. Lapp, J. Flood, & N. Farnan (Eds.),Content area reading and learning (3rd ed.)(pp. 515-535). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Beck, I. L, McKeown, M. G., & Kucan, L. (in press). Creating robust vocabulary: Frequently asked questions and extended examples. New York: Guilford Press.

* Kucan, L. (2007). Insights from teachers who analyzed transcripts of their own classroom discussions. The Reading Teacher.
Kucan, L. (in press). Engaging teachers in investigating their teaching as a linguistic enterprise: The case of comprehension instruction in the context of discussion. Reading Psychology.

Hapgood, S., Kucan, L., & Palincsar, A. S. (2007) Examining the Comprehension and Learning from Text Survey (CoLTS). In Investigating the knowledge of reading needed to teach elementary students to read. Symposium presented at AERA, Toronto, Canada.
Kucan, L. Poetic informational texts in contemporary children's literature: An investigation of literary and linguistic features. Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX.
Kucan, L., & Palincsar, A. S. (December 2007). Locating struggling readers in a reconfigured landscape: A conceptual review. Preconvention institute presentation at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX.

Editorial Reviewer for Cognition and Instruction
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- editorial reviewer
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)