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Certo, Janine; Moxley, Kathleen; Reffitt, Kelly; Miller, Jeffrey A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
The purpose of the present study was to investigate students' perceptions of their experiences with literature circles across elementary grades. A stratified random sample of 24 diverse students in grades one, three, four, and five were individually interviewed to obtain perceptions of their attitudes toward literature circles and their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Manak, Jennifer Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Teachers frequently read aloud as a part of writing instruction so that children's book authors can serve as mentors for students' writing. Despite extensive anecdotal reporting of the significance of reading aloud children's literature within writing workshop, the intertextual connections students construct between interactive read alouds and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Childrens Literature, Mentors, Reading Aloud to Others
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Serafini, Frank; Ladd, Sophie M. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
Drawing on data associated with an investigation of classroom read alouds and discussions of children's literature, this article conceptualizes the reading aloud and discussions of picturebooks as an "interpretive space" for elementary grade students' exploration of visual images and written text. Analyzing the types of responses…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Childrens Literature, Picture Books