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"The Woman of Colour:" Race and Gender in the Literature We Teach
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Clare Lawrence; Sheine Peart; Abigail Moncrief; Sarah Reeve; Rachel Fenn – English in Education, 2025
This paper reports on a short project undertaken with student English teachers during their one year Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) teaching course that considered the potential inclusion of the novella "The Woman of Colour" into their teaching. The research considers how the student teachers received the text and the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, African Americans, Females, Authors
Learning through Literature: The Case of "The Arabian Nights"
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Styles, Morag – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
In the last twenty years, the teaching of reading in Britain has moved away from an interest in how children take delight in, and make meaning of, their literature to a preoccupation with a mechanistic approach to literacy which breaks down texts into bite-sized chunks and fragments reading into a series of isolated skills. Although an expensive,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature
Ghetto Fabulous: Reading Black Adolescent Femininity in Contemporary Urban Street Fiction
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Marshall, Elizabeth; Staples, Jeanine; Gibson, Simone – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
In this article the authors provide a general overview of the controversies associated with urban street fiction, a brief introduction to the genre and an introduction to the complex representations of Black adolescent femininity within two contemporary titles, "Black and Ugly" (Styles, 2006) and "Bitch" (King, 2006). The authors provide a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Americans, Urban Areas, Fiction
Children's Response to Literature: Author, Text, Reader, Context.
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Sipe, Lawrence R. – Theory into Practice, 1999
Examines how researchers can study children's interaction with literature, discussing various perspectives that can be taken on children's literary responses and suggesting lines of inquiry and concepts that might be useful for the continued examination of children's responses. Focuses on the author, the literary text itself, the reader, and the…
Descriptors: Authors, Children, Childrens Literature, Context Effect
It Kind of Makes You Think: Writing Books That Stimulate Thought.
Ames, Mildred – 1987
Noting that books for children must be just as entertaining, if not more so, than television or film in order to maintain young readers' attention, this paper discusses combining entertainment with didacticism in children's and adolescent literature. The first part of the paper offers a writer's reflections on the experience of writing science…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking
On Readability Formulas: A Critical Analysis for Teachers of the Deaf.
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Israelite, Neita Kay – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Readability formulas applied to materials for hearing-impaired students do not account for important factors in reader-writer-text interaction. Factors include the reader's purpose, cultural background, and extent of background knowledge; writers' assumptions about readers; the text's structure, content, and cohesion; and the role of…
Descriptors: Authors, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments