- Writing evaluation for complexity, accuracy and fluency
- Children’s literature, reading response and their intersection with character education
- Reading diagnosis, remediation and tutoring
- Book authoring and process writing applications in different genres across the curriculum
- Teacher preparation through literacy partnerships

- 13 years at Ohio University
- 15 years teaching K-12
- 13 years with the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Nepal and Mexico as a linguistic and literacy researcher

Personal website

www.oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~leal