Rate My Professor Mellie Green

Dr. Green’s academic interests and research specializations include the integration of children’s literature in primary classrooms, reading instruction, and curriculum and pedagogy, with a particular emphasis on fostering reading development in primary students. She is the author of the book Classroom Reading for Enjoyment: Bestowing the Beauty of Book Blether (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), which provides strategies for cultivating enthusiasm for literature among young readers. Other significant publications encompass the chapter “Who Am I as a Reader?” from her book (2024), “Building Communities of Engaged Readers in Australian Schools: Five Ways to Create Conducive Classroom Conditions for Student Engagement in Reading for Enjoyment” (Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 2023), “HARK! Hands up who really loves their classroom reading program? TRI this: three approaches to reading instruction” (The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022), and “Empowering Pre-Service Teachers as Enthusiastic and Knowledgeable Readers” (Education Sciences, 2025). As a lecturer in literacy and English teaching, she emphasizes high-quality children’s books and participates actively in the Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAW) group. Her contributions advocate for the prioritization of reading for enjoyment within primary education curricula.