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Smutny, Nicole Danice; Saal, Leah Katherine – Reading Teacher, 2021
In this article, the authors describe the impact of a reader response game in an English language arts classroom. They explore the theoretical intersection of game-based learning and "good games" and transactional theory as a framework for this practice. After incorporating a "good game" of reader response in classes, the…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Game Based Learning, Educational Games
Doecke, Brenton – English in Australia, 2018
The Assessment Issue of "English in Australia" has prompted Brenton Doecke to ask himself about significant moments in the history of subject English in Australia when truly innovative work was done in the area of assessing English. There are many examples to choose from, including Brian Johnston's "Assessing English: Helping…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Guides, Teaching Guides
Allingham, Philip – English in Australia, 2015
Although secondary school teachers have long been aware of the pedagogical possibilities of Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response (articulated first in "Literature as Exploration," 1938) and I. A. Richards' Close Reading (first broached in "The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Secondary School Students, Social History
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2014
As part of its proposal to the U.S. Department of Education, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) committed to developing Kindergarten through Grade 2 Model Content Frameworks for English language arts (ELA)/literacy (K-2 Model Content Frameworks) to serve as a bridge between the Common Core State Standards…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Primary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts
Soter, Anna O.; Wilkinson, Ian A. G.; Connors, Sean P.; Murphy, P. Karen; Shen, Vincent Fu-Yuan – English Education, 2010
Through their study of classroom talk about and around literary text, the authors discovered that their application of Rosenblatt's (1938/1995, 1978) "aesthetic" stance to elementary (primarily Grades 4-6) students' affective responses to literary text uniformly lacked the simultaneous articulation of "the real impact between the…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Classroom Communication, Reader Text Relationship, Grade 4
Connell, Jeanne M. – Educational Theory, 2008
In this review essay, Jeanne Connell examines the influence of pragmatic philosophy on the scholarly works of twentieth-century literary theorist and English educator Louise Rosenblatt through the lens of a recent collection of her essays originally published between 1936 and 1999. Rosenblatt grounded her transactional theory of literature in…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods, Literature, English Instruction
Flynn, Elizabeth A. – College English, 2007
Although, by the time of her death, Louise Rosenblatt was highly respected in the fields of composition and reading theory, she did not enjoy the same status among literary theorists. In this article, the author argues that Rosenblatt should be taken seriously as a literary theorist. The author shares her views on Rosenblatt's "Literature as…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Audiences, Ethics, English Instruction

Myers, Kris L. – English Journal, 1988
Describes how reader response journals encourage students to interact with literary works. Presents 20 questions, based on David Bleich's response heuristic, which help guide students' responses. (MM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Secondary Education

Jacoby, Jay – CEA Critic, 1990
Discusses reader-response theories and response-centered literature instruction. Outlines fundamental problems that impede the transfer of authority from teacher to community to reader, and offers suggestions for their correction. (PRA)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
Fynes-Clinton, Michael; Mills, Perry – Use of English, 1987
Discusses ways to teach modern plays and poetry, using a reader response approach that makes the works more accessible to students. (HTH)
Descriptors: Drama, English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Poetry

Corcoran, Bill – English Journal, 1988
Presents three strategies for teaching the personal, operational, and cultural dimensions of literary response. (MM)
Descriptors: Context Effect, English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Reader Response

Probst, Robert E. – English Journal, 1986
Discusses using reader response instead of standard literature interpretation teaching methods for the study of adolescent literature in high schools. Asserts that this method gives authority to the students as reader because they must assume responsibility for understanding the text, themselves, and the world. (SRT)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Creative Thinking, English Instruction, Literary Criticism

Harker, W. John – Visible Language, 1985
Explores the tenets of both the New Criticism and reader response criticism, and concludes that there is a need for a new imperative in criticism that conceives literary understanding in terms of a communication process in which both text and reader are granted importance. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Theories, English Instruction, Literary Criticism

Carey, Robert F. – English Quarterly, 1985
Explores the possibility that literary theorists and reading researchers are unconscious of each others interests, goals, and assumptions. Seeks to explore how the gaps between these two areas might best be bridged. (EL)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Hamilton, Carole L., Ed.; Kratzke, Peter, Ed. – 1999
Examining how teachers help students respond to short fiction, this book presents 25 essays that look closely at "teachable" short stories by a diverse group of classic and contemporary writers. The approaches shared by the contributors move from readers' first personal connections to a story, through a growing facility with the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response