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Toward an Understanding of the Aesthetic Response to Literature.
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Cox, Carole; Many, Joyce E. – Language Arts, 1992
Explores aesthetic responses to literature by examining the responses of fifth graders to a variety of books and films. Finds three main characteristics of students' responses: picturing a story in their minds; extending a story or hypothesize about it while reading; and relating associations and feelings evoked while reading and responding.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Reader Response
The Blackbird Is Flying, The Children Must Be Writing.
Swope, Sam – Teachers & Writers, 1998
Describes teaching poetry to fifth-grade students, who are immigrants from 20 countries and who speak 11 languages. Discusses the students' responses to the poetry of Wallace Stevens and attempts at writing their own poetry. (CR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grade 5, Immigrants, Intermediate Grades
Body Parts Reading: Giving Your Two Cents' Worth.
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Willner, Elizabeth Harden – Reading Teacher, 2003
Describes Body Parts Writing, an activity which focuses on the reader's own text-based and self-based interpretations of literature. Notes that the purpose of this activity is to invite and support readers' personal responses and give them a forum to discuss their individual interpretations. Concludes that it provides readers with another way to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Grade 5, Group Discussion, Human Body
Student-Led Book Clubs: Transversing a River of Interpretation.
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McMahon, Susan – New Advocate, 1994
Describes a literature-based reading program with an instructional component that enables teachers to provide the necessary support in reading, writing, and response as urban, low achieving students engage in conversation about books. Describes in detail the discussion of one "book club" group of students during a unit in a fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Dancing with the Wind: Understanding Narrative Text Structure through Response to Multicultural Children's Literature (with an Assist from HyperCard).
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Heller, Mary F.; McLellan, Hilary – Reading Psychology, 1993
Describes a model procedure for integrating direct instruction in story structure with reader response to literature in two settings: traditional storybook read-aloud sessions and nontraditional HyperCard computer sessions. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Hypermedia, Intermediate Grades
Literature Groups and Literature Logs: Responding to Literature in a Community of Readers.
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Danielson, Kathy Everts – Reading Horizons, 1992
Advocates using literature logs and literature discussion groups as an effective way to develop a community of readers. Looks at the different kinds of comments and questions that a class of fifth graders wrote in their literature logs. (SR)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Journal Writing
Literature Response Journals in Social Studies: Between Parent and Child.
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Farris, Pamela J.; Howe, Katherine Hansell; Fuhler, Carol J. – Clearing House, 1998
Describes how literature-response journals were used in a fifth-grade social studies class, as students "journaled" with their parents as they read four Civil War novels. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Dialog Journals, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Getting Started: Using Literature Circles in the Classroom.
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Gilbert, Lori – Primary Voices K-6, 2000
Explains the author's organized yet reflective approach to getting her fifth-grade students to read in literature circles. Discusses her slow and thorough process of building a community, and teaching students to respond to literature. Discusses resources for literature circles, and describes the first literature circle in her classroom (after…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Island Reading Journey. Teacher's Guide [with CD-ROM].
2000
This multimedia program (a CD-ROM and a teacher's guide) features reading comprehension activities to encourage students to read for meaning. It includes exercises for 100 intermediate level books that are commonly available in classrooms or libraries. The program provides 20 "island destinations" that contain activities that assess comprehension,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 4