Emmaline Ellis

Emmaline Ellis
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department: Early & Middle Grades Education
  • Research Cluster: Education, Teaching & Curriculum Development
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: EEllis@wcupa.edu

Education

  • B.A., Boston College
  • M.S.W., University of Pennsylvania
  • M.Ed., University of Pennsylvania
  • Ph.D., Temple University

Research Interests

reading comprehensionvocabularysocial-emotional learning

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Open to Faculty Mentoring: Yes

Biography

Dr. Emmaline Ellis teaches courses in the undergraduate Early Grades Preparation program and Early Childhood Minor. Before her transition into higher education, Dr. Ellis was a Kindergarten teacher and social worker in the city of Philadelphia. Her scholarship focuses on teachers’ implementation of classroom resources that support young children’s early literacy skill development, with a particular focus on classroom discussion related to print during shared reading activities. Dr. Ellis has presented her research at national conferences and published articles in multiple peer-reviewed journals on the topics of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and social-emotional learning interventions.

List of Publications

  • Teachers survive together: Teacher collegial relationships and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, 10/2023 41 Teachers, 41 Different Ways: Exploring Teacher Implementation of a Universal Social-Emotional Learning Program under Routine Conditions, 07/2023 Using National Data to Explore Online and Offline Reading Comprehension Processes, 01/2022 Making Personal Connections to Words to Increase Early Childhood Vocabulary Learning, 09/2021

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