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Van Renen, Charles – Perspectives in Education, 2005
The question is raised whether response-based practices in literature study ? as in other areas of aesthetic learning ? are conceptually incompatible with the practice of demonstrating the attainment of preselected outcomes. The individual reader brings unique experiences, memories, reading background and associations to the reading of…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Foreign Countries
Purves, Alan C.; And Others – 1990
Written in the same spirit as the earlier edition but thoroughly revised and updated, this book is designed to make teachers aware of reader-response theory and its implications for literature instruction and curriculum. The book demonstrates how a response-centered curriculum brings students to a greater understanding of all forms of literature…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Environment, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Gambrell, Linda B., Ed.; Almasi, Janice F., Ed. – 1996
Offering practical, classroom-based strategies teachers can use to promote literacy development, this book presents many examples of children engaging in discussion activities about narrative and informational text that emphasize collaborating, constructing meaning, and using these different types of texts to arrive at new understandings. Chapters…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education
Ryan, Sheila M. – 1985
Reading evaluation should (1) be a continuous process using many samples of a learner's work, (2) allow students to engage in uninterrupted reading, (3) constitute a learning situation, and (4) indicate new directions for improvement in an open-ended manner. Current practices for evaluating children's reading processes are usually based on samples…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Fuller, Deborah Ann – 1987
A case study examined the effects of primary trait scoring on evaluating seventh grade students' compositions. Primary trait scoring as used in the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township in Indianapolis is innovative in that (1) the scoring guide is assignment specific, written after adult raters read and discussed many papers; (2)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria