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Rice, Peggy S. – Children's Literature in Education, 2005
This article examines the responses of eight sixth grade students discussing four realistic fiction Hispanic-American multicultural stories with universal themes by Gary Soto in peer-led literature discussion groups. The results indicate the importance of a reader's sociocultural frame--class, race, and gender, on their interpretation of…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Hispanic American Literature, Fiction, Reader Response