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Diane Lapp

Diane Lapp, distinguished professor of education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, has taught in elementary and middle school and currently teaches 11th and 12th grade English. Her major areas of research and instruction relate to struggling readers and writers who live in economically deprived urban settings, along with their families and teachers. Lapp, who directs and teaches field-based preservice and graduate programs and courses, has authored, coauthored, and edited numerous articles, columns, texts, handbooks, and children’s materials on reading and language arts issues including Teaching Reading to Every Child, Content Reading & Learning, Accommodating Language Differences Among English Language Learners: 75 Strategy Lessons, and The Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts. Lapp has chaired and cochaired several committees for the International Reading Association (now ILA) and the National Reading Conference (now the Literacy Research Association). She is also a member of both the California and the International Reading Hall of Fame.


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