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Reclaiming Pleasure in the Teaching of Reading
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Murphy, Sharon – Language Arts, 2012
Beginning with the premise that pleasure is a driving force in life, this article examines the relationships between pleasure, schooling and society across the past century. Through the examination of school texts, narratives, and histories of literacy instruction, a case is made that part of the move away from keeping pleasure at the heart of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Recreational Reading, Positive Attitudes
Asking the Experts: What Children Have to Say about Their Reading Preferences
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Davila, Denise; Patrick, Lisa – Language Arts, 2010
Ironically, adults control most of the world of children's literature: adults write the books; adults choose which books to publish; adults review the books, adults bestow the awards on books and adults purchase the books for bookstores, libraries, and their children. In this paradigm of adult control, children's opinions are often overlooked. The…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Reading Materials, Publishing Industry, Standardized Tests
"On the Lookout for Language": Children as Language Detectives.
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Monahan, Mary Beth – Language Arts, 2003
Describes how a teacher researcher invited her students to be detectives on the lookout for language and to take a critical perspective on how it varies with each speaker, purpose, and context. Suggests that educators need to be careful about how they present language varieties so that their students appreciate them as more than "quaint artifacts…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Literary Criticism
Stances and Dances: The Negotiation of Subjectivities in a Reading/Language Arts Classroom.
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Broughton, Mary A.; Fairbanks, Colleen M. – Language Arts, 2002
Describes how in the examination of a sixth-grade girl's participation in the language arts classroom that is driven by high-stakes testing and by a regimented classroom culture, the authors came to view students' approaches to literacy events as "stances" and their negotiation of their subjectivities in response to literacy events as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Grade 6, High Stakes Tests
The Precarious Place of Self-Selected Reading.
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Worthy, Jo; Turner, Margo; Moorman, Megan – Language Arts, 1998
Finds that the 35 middle-school language-arts teachers studied agreed that Self Selected Reading (SSR) is an important way to improve students' reading attitudes and achievement, but that their schools rarely provided funds for buying student-preferred materials, and that finding time for SSR was difficult because of the pressure to prepare for…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Reading Achievement
The Pleasure of Thinking.
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Sumara, Dennis; Davis, Brent; van der Wey, Dolores – Language Arts, 1998
Discusses the possibilities for pleasure, community, and collective meaning making among fifth- and sixth-grade students and various adults (teachers, parents, and school staff) during their prolonged engagement with a single literary work, Lois Lowry's "The Giver," as they read and reread the novel, annotating the text with their…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, English Instruction, Grade 5