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Peer reviewedGalda, Lee – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Examines responses of fourth, sixth, and eighth grade students to realistic and fantasy novels. Finds that students responded to fantasy with more categoric evaluations and to realism with more analytic evaluation. Finds also that evaluative responses moved from mainly categoric in grade four to more analytic in the upper grades. (KEH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Fantasy
