Zoi A. Philippakos

Zoi A. Philippakos, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the College of

Education at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She completed her Ph.D. at the

University of Delaware, where she worked with Charles A. MacArthur on the development of a

writing curriculum for basic college writers. Her dissertation examined the effects of peer review

using genre-specific criteria on fourth and fifth-grade students’ persuasive writing. Her

research interests include reading and writing instruction for students in the elementary

grades, strategy instruction and self-regulation, and professional development for

classroom teachers. She has worked as an elementary school teacher and literacy

coach, and she provides professional development to teachers on effective reading and

writing strategies. She is first author of the book Developing Strategic Writers Through Genre

Instruction: Resources for Grades 3-5 (2015) with Charles Macarthur and David Coker, co-

author of Effective Read-Alouds for Early Literacy: A Teacher’s Guide for PreK-1 (2012) with

Katherine Beauchat and Katrin Blamey, and co-author of Differentiated Reading Instruction in

Grades 4 and 5: Strategies and Resources (2011) with Sharon Walpole and Michael McKenna.

She has codeveloped and organized since 2010 the Writing Research Study Group at the Literacy

Research Association (LRA), and she is the Chair of the Writing Task Force at the International

Literacy Association (ILA). She has also published several articles and chapters on strategy

instruction in writing and presented her research at national and international conferences.