Reads and highlights all text-level differences between the first (1938) and fifth (1995) editions of Louise Rosenblatt's "Literature as Exploration." Categorizes each type of revision and traces a sample of each to the edition in which the change was made. Concludes with a consideration of the implications of Rosenblatt's legacy for…

Explores the centrality of genre to print-driven literacy teaching and learning. Discusses the disjunction for many people between the print and digital or media texts they read and write. Contends there is a need for genre-focused theories and practices of literacy education that explicitly attend to the characteristics of digital texts. (PM)

As material objects, texts are as much the product of visual semiotic codes as of linguistic ones. And throughout history, verbal texts have been combined with nonverbal, visual modes of presenting information, taking a stance toward information and readers, and organizing parts into wholes. The major challenge to creating multimodal texts in the…

This book presents 25 essays and studies that explore the interplay of a variety of factors that provide the fuel for individual and collaborative explorations into the nature of literacy. Essays and studies in the book are "Patterns of Response: Struggling Readers Respond to a Real Book during Transactional Literature Discussion" (JoAnn Rubino…