Kari-Lynn Winters

Kari-Lynn Winters
Born 1969
Occupation Author, University Professor
Genres Children's Literature

Kari Winters, née Moore (born 1969) is a Canadian children's author and literacy researcher. She taught children's literature and drama at the University of British Columbia[1] from 2004-2009. In January 2010 Winters assumed the post of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University (Ontario).

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Biography

Born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Winters has studied or taught in schools across North America. Her master's thesis "Developing an Arts-Integrated Narrative Reading Comprehension Program for Less Proficient Grade 3 and 4 Students," on exploring the efficacy of using the arts to strengthen less proficient students' reading comprehension, was selected as best Master's Thesis in Literacy in Canada, 2005.[2] Winters completed her PhD in 2009 with a dissertation entitled "Authorship as Assemblage: Multimodal Literacies of Play, Literature, and Drama."[3] She holds a teaching degree from the University of Toronto, in regular and special education for children ages 3–13. She is also a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, where she earned a certificate in technical theatre.[4] Her dramatic work included writing scripts for and performing with Vancouver's theatre-for-literacy troupe Tickle Trunk Players.[5]

Winters has published award-winning children's books,[6][7] children's non-fiction articles, and academic articles. She says she didn't always consider herself a writer; many of her elementary school years were spent either resisting composition or struggling to write.[8] Much of her current work explores how she came to appreciate storytelling and children's literature and eventually became a writer herself, and ways to effect a similar transformation in her students. Winters has been featured in radio and newspaper interviews[9] and her academic work has been cited by other literacy researchers.[10][11][12]

Books

Anthology contributions

Journal articles (selected)

Children's non-fiction articles (selected)

Children's fiction articles (selected)

Academic Books

Academic book articles (selected)

Conference papers cited in third-party publications

Education

External links

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