Anna Baynum is a licensed K-12 reading specialist and associate professor of Education. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education at Guilford College and earned both her Master of Education and Doctor of Education degrees at the University of Virginia.
Anna’s research interests include fostering language acquisition and increasing language capacity in children from birth to age three, orthographic development, reading ability and disabilities, effective pedagogy, as well as job-embedded professional development.
As a teacher-educator, she teaches courses with an emphasis on literacy assessment and diagnostic procedures, as well as the integration of evidence-based instructional practices in reading across content areas in preschool, elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.
Areas of Expertise
Orthography and Word Study instruction
Differentiated reading instruction
Personal narrative writing: Beginning with drawing pictures and oral rehearsal
Student-generated writing using traditional and digital tools
Literature-based traditional and technology-assisted personal narrative writing
Generating text sets for middle and high school students
Courses Taught
EDUC 141: Education in American Society
EDUC 377/577: Language Acquisition & Reading I
EDUC 378/578: Language Acquisition & Reading II
EDUC 380/580: Reading in the Content Areas
EDUC 306/506: Methods for Teaching Secondary School Writing
EDUC 470/670: Student Teaching
Education
Ed.D., University of Virginia
M.Ed., University of Virginia
B.A., Guilford College
Publications & Articles
Baynum, A.B. (2012). Job-embedded Professional Development: Integrating developmental spelling theory into teacher practice. In H. K. Charkhanehsari (Ed.) One Voice International Collection of Scholarly Works, 2, 1-10.
Cohen, J.A., & Baynum, A.B. (2012). Expanding Adolescent's Vocabulary Knowledge Through Picture Storybooks. Reading in Virginia, 34, 25-28
