Rate My Professor Sonia Cabell

Cabell leads multiple efficacy trials, including the Teaching Together program enhancing oral language via school-home activities, Scholastic Knowledge Library for content-rich literacy in second grade, VOICES II investigating preschool language environments and teacher interactions, CKLA Read Aloud Project boosting vocabulary and comprehension in K-2, Sit Together and Read and Write (STAR-W) for early writing skills, and Great Minds’ Wit & Wisdom curriculum implementation in kindergarten. She co-authored the book Strive-For-Five Conversations: A Framework That Gets Kids Talking to Accelerate Their Language Comprehension and Literacy and developed resources such as Emergent Literacy Lessons for Success and Teaching Together. Key publications encompass “How the science of reading informs 21st-century education” (Petscher et al., 2020), “Teacher–child conversations in preschool classrooms: Contributions to children’s vocabulary development” (Cabell et al., 2015), “The role of frequent, interactive prekindergarten shared reading in the longitudinal development of language and literacy skills” (Zucker et al., 2013), and others, amassing over 6,000 citations on Google Scholar. Her influence includes a TEDxFSU talk “Writing Into Literacy: Why Early Writing Matters” (2019), International Literacy Association presentations, and podcasts shaping national early literacy practices.