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Danielle Marie King-Watkins – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research was a 12-week-long study of six participants attending the same alternative high school in a suburban district in the northeast of the United States. Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory and interpretative qualitative methodology were used to examine participants' reactions to reading self-selected young adult (YA) literature during…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High School Students, Reading Materials, Reader Text Relationship
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Kelly, Laura Beth – Reading Horizons, 2020
Current standards push for elementary students to have text-based and text-centric discussions of what they read. This study explored what bilingual third-grade students talked about during small-group text-based discussions of informational texts. The author conducted a qualitative analysis of 10 video-recorded discussions, five of books matched…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Group Discussion, Grade 3
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Levine, Sarah – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
Experienced readers of literature are more likely than novices to identify aspects of text that are salient to literary interpretation and to construct figurative meanings and thematic inferences from literary texts. This quasi-experimental study explores the hypothesis that novice readers can be supported in constructing literary interpretations…
Descriptors: Inferences, Quasiexperimental Design, Hypothesis Testing, Reader Text Relationship
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Brendler, Beth M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Drawing on and reexamining theories on gender and literacy, derived from research performed between 1974 and 2002, this qualitative study explored the gender assumptions and expectations of Language Arts teachers in a graduate level adolescent literature course at a university in the Midwestern United States. The theoretical framework was…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Expectation, Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes
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Serafini, Frank – Reading Teacher, 2012
In this column, readers are asked to reconsider several traditional instructional strategies, in particular predicting and picture walks, and the role these practices play in the elementary reading curriculum. In addition, what happens after a book has been read must be reconsidered in light of the activities in which life long readers engage. To…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Instruction, Change Strategies, Reading Strategies
Kellem, Harlan – English Teaching Forum, 2009
In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms, where acquisition of English is the ultimate goal, one of the main tasks for the teacher is to provide students with language input and activities that best aid them in their learning process. As different researchers have reported, including poetry-based activities in the EFL classroom is…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Poetry
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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
Sciurba, Katie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The discourse on multicultural literature has focused on providing children of color opportunities to "see themselves" in the texts they read. Since the 1920s, advocates like W.E.B. DuBois have stressed that "visibility" in literature fosters positive psychological development among underrepresented groups of children, in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Civil Rights, Males, Minority Group Students
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Fox, Emily – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This article considers the role of reader characteristics in processing and learning from informational text, as revealed in think-aloud research. A theoretical framework for relevant aspects of readers' processing and products was developed. These relevant aspects included three attentional foci for processing (comprehension, monitoring, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning, Goal Orientation
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Zack, Vicki – Language Arts, 1991
Describes how one teacher uses children's literature to help children learn about the Holocaust. Shares reactions from some of the students to the literature. (MG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
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Rosenblatt, Louise M. – Voices from the Middle, 2005
No one seems to think it necessary to explain what is meant by "literature," or the "aesthetic." If one analyzes the use of these terms in their contexts, a variety of tacit assumptions seems to operate. Sometimes, all that is required is that a text already has been designated as "literature." Sometimes, the presence of story, of a narrative, is…
Descriptors: Literature, Aesthetics, Aesthetic Education, Reader Text Relationship
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King, J. Freeman – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1997
Discusses how books that have predictable story lines can provide rich opportunities for students with hearing impairments to expand their knowledge, experience success in decoding and predicting text, and develop a love of reading. Tips are provided for choosing books that contain familiar sequences, events, ideas, and situations. (CR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Prediction
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Lundin, Anne – Childhood Education, 1991
Maintains that children's books such as "The Secret Garden" can have a strong influence on one's life. Such books offer emotionally satisfying adventures and serve as the touchstones by which we measure all literary experience. (BB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Emotional Experience
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Fulps, Julia Shinneman; Young, Terrell A. – Reading Horizons, 1991
Describes reading response journals and discusses how and when they can be used to help students foster their ability to connect literature with their own lives and increase comprehension. (MG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Journal Writing, Reader Response
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Giorgis, Cyndi; Johnson, Nancy J. – Reading Teacher, 2000
Presents brief descriptions of 36 children's books (published in 1999 and 2000), organized around the theme of the various ways readers respond to text and illustration. Presents the books in the following categories: questioning "who am I?"; interaction; interpreting the world; gaining insight; assuming responsibility; and taking action and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation
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