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Exploring Second Graders' Understanding of the Text-Illustration Relationship in Picture Storybooks and Informational Picture Books
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Thomas, Lisa Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Our society is increasingly bombarded with visual imagery; therefore, it is important for educators to be knowledgeable about the elements of art and to use our knowledge to help students deepen their reading understanding. Arizpe & Styles (2003) noted that students must be prepared to work with imagery in the future at high levels of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Picture Books, Reading, Reader Response
From "Viewpoints: Transaction versus Interaction"
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Rosenblatt, Louise M. – Voices from the Middle, 2005
In this essay, "Viewpoints: Transaction versus Interaction--A Terminological Rescue Operation," originally published in 1985 ("Research in the Teaching of English," 19, 96-107), Rosenblatt points out that no text can guarantee that the experience it provides will be "literary." A poem might be read for the emotional and intellectual experience it…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Processes, Art, Literature Appreciation
Reader Response in Perspective.
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Sloan, Glenna – Journal of Children's Literature, 2002
Presents an overview of critical theory to show how the method of Reader Response evolved. Discusses theories of reading and the reader; variations within reader response; and implementing reader response in literacy programs. Includes a brief response by Robert E. Probst. (RS)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Reader Response
Are There Age-Related Differences in Shallow Semantic Processing of Text? Evidence from Eye Movements
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Daneman, Meredyth; Hannon, Brenda; Burton, Christine – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
After reading text such as Amanda was bouncing all over because she had taken too many tranquilizing sedatives in one day, young adult readers frequently fail to report that they noticed the anomalous noun phrase (NP). Although young readers of all skill levels are susceptible to this kind of shallow semantic processing, less-skilled readers are…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Adults, Nouns, Eye Movements
Readers and Texts in the Primary Years. Rethinking Reading.
Martin, Tony; Leather, Bob – 1994
Exploring the responses of a variety of readers from three-year-old Dominic sharing a picture book with his father to adults reading a poem by Ted Hughes, this book examines the ways in which various readers respond to different texts. The aim of the book is to develop an awareness of the issues involved in readers' responses for primary teachers.…
Descriptors: Advertising, British National Curriculum, Elementary Education, English Literature
Prior Expectations of "Great Expectations": How One Child Learned to Read a Classic.
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Crago, Hugh – College English, 1996
Charts the process by which, over some 10 years, one reader came to read a particular text "with full understanding." Indicates how crucial in that process were the complex, interacting influences of other, simpler literary texts, of the reader's own life experience, and (paradoxically) of "family" experience not consciously…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Family Role, Higher Education, Literature
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading. Fourth Edition.
Ruddell, Robert B., Ed.; And Others – 1994
Serving as a source of questions for researchers to investigate and a resource for professors and their students, this book presents 51 essays that discuss where the reading field has been, is now, and might be going. More than 80% of the essays are new or revised from the third edition. Essays in the book include "Professional Connections:…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Metacognition, Models, Reader Response