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Love, Kristina – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2002
Examines the challenges facing one group of secondary school English teachers in Australia as they conducted their first online discussions with a group of Year 11 students. Provides a map to help other teachers steer a clear course towards productive use of online discussion for text-response purposes. (SG)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Research, English Curriculum
Hanzl, Anne – 2002
This guide to the best books for children published in Australia in 2001 represents the choice of the judges of the Children's Book Council of Australia. The guide presents a shortlist of books in all award categories except that of Older Readers. It provides discussion points for exploring each book, enabling teachers and learners to focus on…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Early Childhood Education
Tobin, Barbara – 1990
In the 1970s and 1980s the white Australian author Patricia Wrightson's cross-cultural fantasies concerning the conflict of White characters with Aboriginal folk spirits struck a chord with many adolescent and adult readers who judged these novels to be outstandingly successful. A classroom-based study examined the responses of a class of seventh…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Childrens Literature, Fantasy

Rowell, Jack A.; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1990
Presents a study of the effect of differences in reading strategies on the construction of meaning from novel length text. Discusses relevant psychological theory. Hypothesizes effects of differing strategies in reading the book "Animal Farm." Concludes that teacher-directed reading provides a depth of meaning not found when students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Wyatt, Helen; And Others – 1986
To help children better understand and exert control over the use of narrative language, teachers need not only to devote time to children's literature, but also need to emphasize other narrative forms including the mass media and children's own stories (in their talk, writing, drawing, and play). Giving children experience in mass media…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing, Educational Media
Morgan, Wendy R. – 1986
If young readers (adolescents) are introduced to a range of story structures and less structured texts (or "deviant narratives"), it may encourage the development of more diverse and accommodating schemata and the capacity to make inferences about the link between discourse units. It is, after all, a basic principle of recent narrative…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Expressive Language