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Kelly B. Cartwright, Ph.D.
Dr. Kelly Cartwright is an expert on reading comprehension, children's thinking, and the development of literacy processes. She is author of Word Callers: Small-Group and One-to-One Interventions for Children who "Read" but Don't Comprehend(2010, Heinemann) and editor of Literacy Processes: Cognitive Flexibility in Learning and Teaching (2008, Guilford), which was nominated for the Ed Fry book award in 2008. She has published articles in The Reading Teacher, the Journal of Educational Psychology, the Journal of Literacy Research, the Journal of Child Language, the Virginia Journal of Reading, and the Journal of Cognition and Development; and she consults regularly in public and private schools around the country. A professor of psychology at Christopher Newport University, Dr. Cartwright teaches undergraduate and graduate students and conducts research. Courses she teaches focus on the development of children's thinking, learning, language and literacy; research; and reading processes. Her research applies work in cognitive developmental science to better understand literacy learning and instruction. She is especially interested in the impact of executive functions such as cognitive flexibility (or the flexibility with which individuals can process concurrently many aspects of a task) on reading comprehension in particular, and on literacy teaching and learning more broadly. Work in this area holds great promise for helping a particular group of struggling comprehenders - commonly called word callers - who tend to focus inflexibly on words' sounds without attention to meaning. Cartwright is a member of American Psychological Association Division 15 - Educational Psychology, the Cognitive Development Society, the International Reading Association, the Literacy Research Association (formerly National Reading Conference), the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, and the Society for Research in Child Development. In her local community, Cartwright has worked with colleagues in the public schools to establish Literacy Partners, a tutoring program for struggling elementary readers (Cartwright, Savage, Morgan, & Nichols, 2009). She is currently working with university and K-12 colleagues to develop a Literacy Collaborative at a local elementary school: a partnership dedicated to sustained excellence in literacy learning and instruction. Read Dr. Cartwright's Articles:
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