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Gutteridge, Don – English Quarterly, 1983
Explores the role of word sounds in the compositional process and investigates whether the reader's responses to the sound structure need to be adjusted if that structure's influence on the emerging meaning is significant. (MM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Coherence, Creative Writing
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Herrick, Michael J. – English Quarterly, 1981
Draws on current television programs to show how English teachers can teach the elements of plot, character, and theme. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Secondary Education
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Dyer, Brenda – English Quarterly, 1996
Discusses reader-based and text-based approaches to teaching literature to high school students and then offers suggestions for questions and activities for the teaching of Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War." (TB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literary Criticism
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Salvio, Paula M. – English Quarterly, 1995
Explains how female preservice teachers describe their covert reading histories in assigned autobiographical narratives. Uses textual devices borrowed from Bertolt Brecht to show how preservice teachers can critically analyze the assumptions underlying their understanding of their early reading experiences. (TB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Females, Feminism, Higher Education