Ph.D. Indiana University (Language Education, Early Childhood Education), 1986
M.A.Ed. Wake Forest University (Elementary Education), 1982
B.S. University of Kentucky (Human Development, Early Childhood Education), 1976
Deborah Wells Rowe received her Ph.D. from Indiana University – Bloomington in 1986 with an emphasis in Language Education. She joined the faculty at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University the same year, and continues to serve as Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning. At Vanderbilt, Deborah teaches undergraduate courses in reading and language arts methods, and graduate courses related to literacy development, language arts instruction, qualitative research methods, and educational inquiry.
Dr. Rowe's research focuses on understanding how preschool and elementary children learn to write in classroom settings. She is interested in preschoolers’ writing and book-related play, multimodal composing, and cultural, embodied, and spatial aspects of literacy learning in classrooms.
| Item title | Grade range | Content area | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet Chart - Write Start! | Grades PK - 3 | ELA / Literacy | 2 | ||
| Preschool and Early Grades Writing - Deborah Wells Rowe | Grades PK - 1 | ELA / Literacy | 1 | ||
| Write Start! Writing Assessment | Grades PK - 2 | ELA / Literacy | 3 |
