Reader Response in Elementary Classrooms: Quest and Discovery

by Karolides; Nicholas J.

• ISBN13: 9780805822601
• ISBN10: 0805822607
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Reader Response in Elementary Classrooms establishes and explores the essential features of reader response theory and its rendering of the reading process. The essays in this volume acknowledge a philosophy of teaching and illustrate a spectrum of teaching strategies to evoke and enhance readers' responses, including whole and small group discussion; story drama; readers' theatre; journal writing; scripts, letter, stories, and other writings; and "body punctuation." A case study format is used to illustrate these strategies in action in real classrooms.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Transactional Theory and Literature-Based Teaching	p. 1
The Reading Process Transactional Theory in Action	p. 3
References	p. 27
Literature-Based Teaching A Student Response-Centered Classroom	p. 29
References	p. 47
Initiating and Developing Readers' Responses Classroom Case Studies	p. 51
Talking About Literature """"In Depth"""": Teacher-Supported Group Discussions in a Fifth-Grade Classroom	p. 53
References	p. 67
Drama and Response to Literature Reading the Story Re-Reading """"the Truth""""	p. 69
References	p. 94
If I Were A Poet I'd Say Something Beautiful	p. 95
	p. 108
References	p. 110
Bringing Literature to Life Through Reader's Theatre	p. 113
References	p. 124
Body Punctuation Reader-Response in Motion	p. 125
References	p. 135
I Can't be Like Pippi 'Cause I'm Afraid to Live Alone Third Graders' Response to Novels	p. 137
	p. 153
	p. 153
	p. 153
References	p. 154
Transactions in Action Life in the Second Grade	p. 155
	p. 183
Suggested Books (For Use With Children or Adults)	p. 184
References	p. 184
Learning to Walk Together in a Third-Grade Bilingual Classroom: From Transmission to Transactional Instruction in Literature	p. 187
References	p. 212
Exploring Issues Content Area Applications	p. 213
Scaffolding Urban Students' Initiations: Transactions in Reading Information Books in the Read-Aloud Curriculum Genre	p. 215
Appendix: Conventions Of Transcreption	p. 233
References	p. 234
Sharing the Responses of Readers An Interdisciplinary Pumpkin Unit in the First Grade	p. 237
References	p. 257
Journeying Through the Eastern Hemisphere Listening and Responding to Many Voices	p. 261
References	p. 275
The Aesthetics of Informational Reading	p. 279
References	p. 297
Professional Development	p. 299
Reconsidering Teachers' Roles and Procedures Developing Dialoguing Skills	p. 301
References	p. 312
The Making of a Bicultural Teacher A Classroom Case Study	p. 315
Appendix: Journal Entry And Retelling	p. 328
References	p. 331
Reader Response One District's Initiatives	p. 333
References	p. 351
Appendix	p. 351
About the Contributors	p. 353
Author Index	p. 359
Subject Index	p. 365
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