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Pope, James; Round, Julia – Children's Literature in Education, 2015
The paper presents findings from a reader response study conducted in February 2013 with 150 children aged 7-11 in which they discussed extracts and clips from Roald Dahl's "Matilda" (1988) and its cinematic adaptation (1996). Dahl and "Matilda" were chosen because they provoke emphatic responses from adults, often commenting…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Childrens Literature, Films, Children
Wolf, Shelby; Gearhart, Maryl – 1993
The central role of teachers' interpretive assessments in guiding the growth of young writers is explored. Theories of reader response and literary criticism have been used to design a framework that integrates what is read with what is written. The current context of writing assessment is explored, and some of the other authors' efforts to…
Descriptors: Children, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods