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Pfenninger, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores the social construction of gender perceptions among U.S and U.K. fifth grade students engaged in book club. Using a reader response framework, this study endeavors to discover how meaning is negotiated through print and film literacy, specifically related to gender. By using four Newbery and other award winning pieces of…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Nonprint Media, Sexual Identity, Grade 5
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Aukerman, Maren S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
This study offers an alternative to traditional notions of scaffolding for reading comprehension by tracing the evolution of a fifth-grade small group literature conversation in which the teacher sought to displace himself as "primary knower" (Berry, 1981) in the conversation. The study examines how the teacher shared evaluation with his…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)