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Aukerman, Maren – Educational Leadership, 2006
How should a teacher respond when a student makes off-base guesses about meaning in a literary text because that learner is trying to genuinely understand the story rather than find the "right" meaning? Aukerman argues that when teachers jump in to correct students' interpretations, they short-circuit students' processes of reading and thinking.…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension