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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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Many, Joyce E.; Hutchingson, Rebecca; Nicklow, Lisa – Reading Horizons, 1997
Examines literary discourse that occurred in a sixth-grade language arts classroom within a departmentalized, multidisciplinary, and then an interdisciplinary, context. Identifies discourse elements. Organizes elements into the following broad themes: (1) the text and the story world; (2) the reader and the story world; and (3) discipline…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Discourse Communities, Grade 6, Integrated Activities