Selected Publications
(For complete list of publications, please see the faculty member's curriculum vitae.)

Books
Wolf, S. A. (2004). Interpreting literature with children. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Wolf, S. A. & Heath, S. B. (1992). The braid of literature: Children's worlds of reading. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Monographs
Wolf, S. A. (2008). From the “mantle” to expertise: The arc of Creative Partnerships. London: Creative Partnerships.

Heath, S. B., Boehncke, E. P., & Wolf, S. A. (2007). Made for each other: Creative sciences and arts in the secondary school. London: Creative Partnerships.

Wolf, S. A. (2006). A playwright's life for me! London: Creative Partnerships.

Booklets
Heath, S. B., & Wolf, S. A. (2005). Dramatic learning in the primary school. London: Creative Partnerships.

Heath, S. B., & Wolf, S. A. (2004). Visual learning in the community school. London: Creative Partnerships.

Journal Articles
Enciso, P., Jenkins, C., Trites, R. S., & Wolf, S.A. (2008, September/October). Schools of thought. The Horn Book Magazine, 523-536.

Wolf, S. A. (2008). The mysteries of creative partnerships. Journal of Teacher Education, 59(1), 89-102.

Wolf, S. A. (2006). The mermaid's purse: Looking closely at young children's art and poetry. Language Arts, 87(1), 10-20.

Borko, H., Wolf, S. A., Simone, G., & Uchiyama, K. (2003). Schools in transition: Reform efforts and school capacity in Washington state. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25(2), 171-202.

Uchiyama, M. K., & Wolf, S. A. (2002). The best way to lead them. Educational Leadership, 59(8), 80-83.

Wolf, S. A., & Wolf, K. P. (2002). Teaching true and to the test in writing. Language Arts, 79(3), 229-240.

Wolf, S. A., & Maniotes, L. (2002). Silenced by sex: Hard truths and taboos in teaching literature. The New Advocate, 15(3), 197-204.

Whitelaw, J., & Wolf, S. A. (2001). Learning to "see beyond": Sixth-grade students' artistic perceptions of the giver. The New Advocate, 14(1), 57-67.

Wolf, S. A. (2001). "Wax on/wax off": Helping preservice teachers "read" themselves, children, and literature. Theory into Practice, 40(3), 205-211.

Wolf, S. A., Ballentine, D., & Hill, L. (2000). Only connect!: Cross cultural connections in the reading lives of preservice teachers and children. Journal of Literacy Research, 32(4), 533-569.

Wolf, S. A., Borko, H., Elliot, R., & McIver, M. C. (2000). "That dog won't hunt!": Exemplary school change efforts within the Kentucky reform. American Educational Research Journal, 37(2), 349-393.

McIver, M. C., & Wolf, S. A. (1999). The power of the conference is the power of suggestion. Language Arts, 77(1), 54-61.

Wolf, S. A., Ballentine, D., & Hill, L. (1999). The right to write: Preservice teachers' evolving understandings of authenticity and aesthetic heat in multicultural literature. Research in the Teaching of English, 34(1), 130-184.

Wolf, S. A., Hill, L., & Ballentine, D. (1999). Teaching on fissured ground: Preparing teachers for culturally conscious pedagogy. National Reading Conference Yearbook, 48, 423-436.

Wolf, S. A., Hill, L., & McIver, M. (1999). When process becomes policy: The paradox of Kentucky state reform for exemplary teachers of writing. Phi Delta Kappan, 80(5), 401-406.

Wolf, S. A., & Davinroy, K. A. H. (1998). "The clay that makes the pot": The loss of language in writing assessment. Written Communication, 15(4), 419-464.

Wolf, S. A. (1998). The flight of reading: Shifts in instruction, orchestration, and attitudes through classroom theatre. Reading Research Quarterly, 33(4), 382-415.

Wolf, S. A., & Brice, S. B. (1998). Wondrous words: Young children's rewritings of prose and poetry. The New Advocate, 11(4), 291-310.

Wolf, S. A., & Gearhart, M. (1997). New writing assessments: The challenge of changing teachers' beliefs about students as writers. Theory Into Practice, 36(4), 220-230.

Gearhart, M., & Wolf, S. A. (1997). Issues in portfolio assessment: Assessing writing processes from their products. Educational Assessment, 4, 265-296.

Wolf, S. A., Carey, A. A., & Mieras, E. L. (1996). The art of literary interpretation: Preservice teachers learning about the arts in language arts. In D. J. Leu, C. K. Kinzer, & K. A. Hinchman (Eds.), Literacies for the 21st century: Research and practice: Forty-fifth yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 447-460). Chicago, IL: National Reading Conference.

Wolf, S. A., Mieras, E. L., & Carey, A. A. (1996). What's after "what's that?": Preservice teachers learning to ask literary questions. Journal of Literacy Research, 28(4), 459-497. http://www.nrconline.org/jlr/archive/v28/issue_28_4.html

Wolf, S. A. (1996). "What is this literachurch stuff anyway?" Preservice teachers' growth in understanding children's literary response. Reading Research Quarterly, 31(2), 130-157.

Wolf, S. A. (1995). Language in and around the dramatic curriculum. The Journal of Curriculum Studies, 27(2), 117-137.

Gearhart, M., Herman, J. L., Novak, J.R., & Wolf, S. A. (1995). Toward the instructional utility of large-scale writing assessment: validation of a new narrative rubric. Assessing Writing, 2(2), 207-242. Click here for the journal homepage.

Gearhart, M., & Wolf, S. A. (1994). Engaging teachers in assessment of their students' narrative writing: The role of subject matter knowledge. Assessing Writing , 1 (1), 67-90. Click here for the journal homepage.

Wolf, S. A. (1994). Learning to act/acting to learn: Children as actors, characters, and critics in classroom theatre. Research in the Teaching of English, 28(1), 7-44.

Wolf, S. A., & Enciso, P. (1994). Multiple selves in literary interpretation: Engagement and the language of drama. In D. J. Leu & C. K. Kinzer (Eds.), Multidimensional aspects of literacy research, theory, and practice: Forty-third yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 351-360). Chicago, IL: National Reading Conference.

Wolf, S. A., & Gearhart, M. (1994). Writing what you read: Assessment as a learning event. Language Arts, 71(6), 425-444.

Wolf, S. A., & Heath, S. B. (1993). The net of story. The Horn Book Magazine, 69(6), 705-713.

Wolf, S. A. (1993). What's in a name? Labels and literacy in readers theatre. The Reading Teacher, 46(7), 540-545.

Wolf, S. A. (1991). Following the trail of story. Language Arts, 68, 388-395. Chapters in Edited Volumes and Handbooks. National Council of Teachers of English.

Book Chapters
Siu-Runyan, Y., & Wolf, S. A. (2002). Asian and pacific island literature. In A. McClure & J. Kristo (Eds.), Adventuring with books: A booklist for Pre-K--Grade 6 (pp. 317-339). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Wolf, S. A., Edmiston, B., & Enciso, P. (1997). Drama worlds: Places of the heart, head, voice, and hand in dramatic interpretation. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, & S. B. Heath (Eds.), A handbook for literacy educators: Research on teaching the communicative and visual arts (pp. 474-487). New York: Macmillan.

Technical Reports
Wolf, S., Borko, H., McIver, M., & Elliott, R. (1999). "No excuses": School reform efforts in exemplary schools of Kentucky. (CSE Technical Report No. 514). Los Angeles: University of California, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.

Stecher, B.M., Borko, H., Barron, S., & Wolf, S.A. (1997). Important features of state assessment systems from the local perspective. (CSE Technical Report 472). Los Angeles: University of California, Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.