Her scholarly areas of interest include students’ uptake of strategies for reading and writing, connections between reading and writing, and content area teachers’ understandings of literacy within their disciplines. She was awarded a University of Colorado Diversity and Excellence Grant to start a university-high school mentorship project in which university tutors act as literacy coaches to urban high school students. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Reading Council Journal and in the following books: Reading and Writing with Understanding; Secondary School Reading and Writing: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practices; and Talking Science, Writing Science: The Work of Language in Multicultural Classrooms.