WOW Stories: Volume XII, Issue 1
Making Space for Literature Amidst Mandates
Spring 2025
WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom is a free, open access, on-line, academic publication of Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures containing blind, peer-reviewed vignettes written by educators about student’s experiences reading and responding to literature.
Introduction: Making Space for Literature Amidst Mandates
Yoo Kyung Sung & Julia López-Robertson
Navigating Science of Reading Mandates Through a Culturally Responsive Lens
Rosalia Pacheco
Children’s Literature and the Science of Reading: Essential Partners for Comprehension
Carolyn Cort
Exploring Cultural Bridges: Teaching ‘The Kite Runner’ in the AP Literature Classroom amidst the Discourse of Banned Books
Jacqueline Gale
Creating Spaces for Voice, Choice and Resistance
Dorea Kleker, Narges Zandi, and Kathy G. Short
WOW Visual Stories
School Librarians Collaborating with Students, Parents, Families, and Community Members: A Never-Ending Joyful Journey
Mary Jade Haney
Editors:
Yoo Kyung Sung, Lead editor
Julia López-Robertson, Co-editor
Review Board:
Mary Starrs Armstrong, Anchorage, AK
Deanna Day-Wiff, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
Charlene Klassen Endrizzi, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
Jeanne Fain, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
Mary Fahrenbruck, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Lauren Freedman, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Andrea García, Insight Policy Research, Austin, TX
Dorea Kleker, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
EnHye Lee, Yong In University, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Judi Moreillon, Tucson, AZ
Cynthia K. Ryman, California State University Monterey Bay, Marina, CA
Tracy Smiles, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
Monique Storie, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam
Deonna Tourtellot, Red Rock Elementary School, Red Rock, AZ
Melissa Wilson, Cardiff, Wales
Production Editor:
Aika Adamson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Authors retain copyright over the vignettes published in this journal and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the following Creative Commons License:
WOW Stories, Volume XII, Issue 1 by Worlds of Words is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on work at https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/xii-1.
WOW stories: connections from the classroom
ISSN 2577-0551