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Wyile, Andrea Schwenke – Children's Literature in Education, 1999
Probes the complicity that results from the act of narrative engagement which, in a first-person narrative, can create a close relationship between the reader and the writer. Distinguishes among three types of first-person narration using the terms "immediate-engaging-first-person,""distant-engaging-first-person," and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Appreciation
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James, Rebecca – Children's Literature in Education, 1999
Considers two CD-Rom narratives as examples of high quality, interactive multimedia texts currently available. Looks at how verbal and visual texts draw the reader into an interactive response and the extent to which multimedia elements shape the reader's experience of the text. Bases findings loosely on fieldwork involving responses of four…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Text
Linek, Wayne M., Ed.; Sturtevant, Elizabeth G., Ed. – 1997
This book presents 25 essays and studies that explore the interplay of a variety of factors that provide the fuel for individual and collaborative explorations into the nature of literacy. Essays and studies in the book are "Patterns of Response: Struggling Readers Respond to a Real Book during Transactional Literature Discussion" (JoAnn Rubino…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Literacy