Jackie Malloy is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. She is affiliated with the Elementary Education and Literacy program areas and is a proud descendent of the Linda Gambrell and David Reinking mentoring-lines. Prior to earning her Doctorate from the Eugene T. Moore School of Education at Clemson Univeristy, Jackie taught in the School District of Oconee County, SC. Jackie is currently teaching the Literacy I and II methods courses in the Fall and Spring, and will be teaching Differentiation & Assessment and Research & Assessment in the Summer.

Jackie is a University Facilitator for two Professional Development Schools in Prince William County, VA: Old Bridge Elementary and Occoquan Elementary. In this capacity, she happily visits and supervises Elementary Education Interns in both the Year Long and Semester Long programs and enjoys her interactions with the clinical faculty and their students.

Jackie has a wonderful husband, Brian, who is a professor of Computer Science at Clemson Univeristy, and three delightful teenage children - Christopher, Meghan, and Connor. However, her dog, Hank, a tri-colored Australian Shepherd, is always the first to greet her at the door. Due to the happy circumstance of being born and raised in the vicinity of the 'Burgh, Jackie is a proud member of the Steeler Nation and tries to make it to training camp in her hometown of Latrobe every summer.

Jackie is currently collecting data with Dr. Seth Parsons, also of GMU, on type of instructional task, teacher adaptations, and student engagement in a local elementary classroom. She is also finishing up the analysis of data from various portions of a three-year IES supported grant that she was involved with while at Clemson University. The project was titled "Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents" and she and her graduate student, Amos O. Simms-Smith, are integrating SC and CT interview data on online reading skills for an upcoming manuscript submission.Jackie is also working with Linda Gambrell of Clemson University to analyze sets of student - adult pen pal exchanges written about commonly read texts from a research project that concluded last year.

Beyond these projects, Jackie is interested in reading comprehension, motivation, and instructional practices that are authentic and increase the likelihood of effective cognitive engagement. She is currently working on a project proposal to investigate methods of teaching peer-led discussions in elementary classrooms that will improve comprehension of text and reading motivation with third and fourth grade students. She would like to extend research on discussion as an instructional method to math and science content areas. Jackie is also interested in working on an updated version of the Motivation to Read Profile to include writing and online literacy skills. Jackie is a proponent of the formative experiment (see book by Reinking & Braddley, 2004) when conducting classroom research involving instructional interventions, and of mixed methods designs in general.

Malloy, J. A. & Gambrell, L. B. (in 2009). The Contribution of Discussion to Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking. In. R. Allington & A. McGill-Franzen (Eds). Handbook of Reading Disabilities Research. Mahwah, NJ. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Malloy, J.A. & Gambrell, L.B. (2008). New insights on motivation in the literacy classroom. In: C.C. Block & S.R. Parris, Comprehension Instruction: 2nd ed. New York: Guilford.

Chaverra, D., Villa, N. & Malloy, J. (2007). La motivación en la lectura y su relación con la didáctica. En: Lenguaje y Escuela, No.5. Medellín, Escuela Normal Superior María Auxiliadora.

Malloy, J. A. & Gambrell, L. B. (2006). Approaching the unavoidable: Literacy instruction and the Internet. Reading Teacher 59 (5), 482-484.

Malloy, J.A., Gambrell, L.B. & Williams, G.S.  (2006). Supporting students' motivation to read.  In C. Cummins (Ed.), Understanding and implementing Reading First Initiatives: The changing role of administrators (pp. 116 – 126). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Gambrell, L.B., Malloy, J.A. & Mazzoni, S.A. (2006). Evidence-based best practices for comprehensive literacy instruction. In: L. B. Gambrell, L.M. Morrow, Pressley, M., & Guthrie, J.T., Eds. Best Practices in Literacy Instruction (3rd Ed.) New York: Guilford Press.

Gambrell, L. B., Malloy, J. A. & Morrow, L. M. (2006).  Write from the start.  In S. B. Wepner & L. B. Gambrell (Eds.) Beating the Odds: Getting Published in the Field of Literacy. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Malloy, J.A. (2005) A case for collaboration: Parents and speech-language pathologists in the kindergarten classroom.  Reading Matters, 6 (2), 9 – 14.

• Elementary Education PK-6
• Literacy and Reading

• Literacy Teaching and Learning in Diverse Elementary Classrooms I (EDCI - 555)

• Literacy Teaching and Learning in Diverse Elementary Classrooms II (EDCI - 556)
• Assessment and Differentiation (EDCI - 545)
• Research and Assessment in Elementary Education (EDCI - 559)