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Transforming Readers: Teachers and Children in the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Power of Reading Project
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O'Sullivan, Olivia; McGonigle, Sue – Literacy, 2010
This paper presents findings from a national project in England, The Power of Reading (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education), which has involved to date 41 projects over 5 years, in 16 Local Authorities nationally, with 900 schools and 1,350 teachers. The paper presents findings for the first 4 years. Our data demonstrate how professional…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, Reading Programs
"It's All Coming Together": An Encounter between Implied Reader and Actual Reader in the Australian Rainforest
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Williams, Sandra J. – Literacy, 2008
In this paper I discuss how taking a particular literary theory--the implied reader--serves to offer a focus for the teacher's initial reading of a text and provides a formative assessment tool. Iser's Implied Reader theory is discussed, after which a picture book, "Where the Forest Meets the Sea" by Jeannie Baker, is analysed from this…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Formative Evaluation, Reader Response, Childrens Literature