One of your duties as a candidate and as a teacher is to connect to the research surrounding your
discipline. As such, you will pull a topic from our course reading and search for a peer-reviewed journal
article that relates to your topic. For example, while reading the chapter about assessing student writing,
you may find the controversy about using rubrics for assessment particularly interesting. This would be a
potential topic for you to research further. Once you identify your topic and locate –and read– a
coordinating article, you will submit a written summary of your article with an explanation of how your article
is relevant to the course readings and your classroom or future classroom. Your review and application of
the article must be written in an expository form. A list of facts will not be accepted. Please include a thesis
statement that supports your position.
The following list of journals may be good places to begin your search:
Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education Journal
Journal of Research in Childhood Education
Language Arts
Reading Teacher
Young Children
(Journals available through HSU and OBU libraries—bound and online)
You must use a peer-reviewed journal article. Articles from sources like Read, Write, Think or Reading
Rockets, will not be accepted. Though those are excellent places to look for information, they do not have
the depth of research needed for this assignment.
You will use the latest edition of APA and include in-text citations as well as a reference page.