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DeFauw, Danielle L.; Crowe, Chris; Burnett, Christine – Reading Horizons, 2022
This study explores virtual, student-author interviews eighth-grade students led with Chris Crowe in response to his young adult novel "Mississippi Trial, 1955." The opportunity to interview the author motivated students to read the novel. Through their text-world development, students connected with the fictional and nonfictional…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Reader Response, Adolescent Literature
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Willson, Angeli; Falcon, Lori; Martinez, Miriam – Reading Horizons, 2014
This qualitative research study explored second graders' use of visual information to understand characters in picturebooks. Students participated in whole class read-alouds of three picturebooks. Immediately following each read-aloud, students were individually interviewed and invited to talk about the visual text in pre-selected illustrations.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Reading Skills, Literary Devices
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Meyer, Amanda; Schendel, Roland K. – Reading Horizons, 2014
A classroom teacher capitalizes on social learning and reader response theories to challenge her accelerated first-grade readers by implementing literature circles. The aim of this action research was to identify a clear view of "how" to use literature circles with first-graders and "what" might be accomplished. Three…
Descriptors: Socialization, Grade 1, Reader Response, Reading Instruction
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Leal, Dorothy; Moss, Barbara – Reading Horizons, 1999
Examines the nature of engagement with informational text by exploring four gifted students' responses to children's information books and informational storybooks. Indicates that these children expressed a variety of reasons for reading non-fiction and held interesting perceptions and strong opinions about informational content. Finds that…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Gifted, Interviews, Nonfiction