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Soiferman, L. Karen; Straw, Stanley B. – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate what teachers in a Western Canadian province were doing when engaging their students with literature. Forty two teachers from Kindergarten through to Grade 12 were interviewed, which allowed us to get a broad perspective on the types of reader response activities that are being taught in the classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reader Response, Literature Appreciation, Teacher Attitudes
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Simpson, Alyson; Walsh, Maureen; Rowsell, Jennifer – Literacy, 2013
This paper reports a study that examines the integration of tablet technologies such as iPads into literacy lessons to investigate how reading and meaning-making occur within this digital medium. Specifically in this paper, we discuss the concept of reading paths as applied to physical and cognitive planes of meaning-making. The paper reports on…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Literacy Education
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Strong-Wilson, Teresa – Children's Literature in Education, 2008
We are made up of stories: the stories we hear, the stories we tell. Intertextual connections form through repeatedly hearing stories, many of which stem back to childhood. This paper foregrounds a teachers-as-readers literature circle in which a group of Indigenous teachers in Canada discussed, among other titles, Rafe Martin's "The Rough…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Indigenous Populations, Reader Text Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Wyatt-Smith, Claire; Kimber, Kay – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This article explores the emergence of multimodality as intrinsic to the learning, teaching and assessment of English in the Twenty-First Century. With subject traditions tied to the study of language, literature and media, multimodal texts and new technologies are now accorded overdue recognition in English curriculum documents in several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Curriculum, Learning Modalities, Technology Uses in Education
Bogdan, Deanne – 1988
The choice between the fusion of literature and life and a pedagogy of engagement, on the one hand, and the separation of literature and life and a pedagogy of detachment, on the other, is a painful one. Philosopher of education James Gribble would rather risk some form of aestheticism than allow that a great work of literature could be viewed in…
Descriptors: Censorship, Critical Reading, Educational Philosophy, English Curriculum
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Zaharias, Jane Ann – English Journal, 1989
Examines tasks provided for students in most literature textbooks used in the United States, noting that these tasks typically control students' responses to literature. Relates these tasks to current theory and research on the reading process. Describes activities from literature texts used in Canada that facilitate literary response. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Reader Response
Halpern, Honey – Reading-Canada-Lecture, 1987
Presents effective methods for the discussion, sharpening, and enrichment of readers' responses. Includes methods to teach students how to choose a good book, an individualized and/or group reading and response program, and journal writing techniques. Provides a bibliography of Canadian children's literature for intermediate grades. (MM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)