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Flurkey, Alan D.; Goodman, Yetta M. – Language Arts, 2004
A fourth grader's reading and retelling is studied to demonstrate how he learns about the complexity of the text while he reads. The importance of understanding what a reader learns through transaction with a well-written complex text is also discussed.
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reading Skills, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
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Parsons, Linda T. – Language Arts, 2006
This study involved fourth grade children as co-researchers of their engaged, aesthetic reading experience. As members of the "Readers as Researchers Club," they documented their engagement with text--how they create, enter, and sustain the story world. The children, who self-identified as avid readers, explored the activities central to their…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Individualized Reading
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Hess, Mary Lou – Language Arts, 1991
Shares how the author designed reading activities to increase students' understanding of nonfiction by adhering to three principles: purpose, classification, and collaboration. Recounts how students responded to the reading materials and each other as they developed an understanding of the information available to them. (MG)
Descriptors: Classification, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum