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Peer reviewedCramer, Barbara B. – Language Arts, 1984
Describes a survey of seventh grade students' reading attitudes. Presents interviews with three of the surveyed students in which they each describe a book they have read and their response to its special meaning. (HTH)
Descriptors: Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response
Peer reviewedLanger, Judith A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Examines the approaches students use when reading for literary and informational purposes. Finds four recursive stances readers take in relation to the text: (1) being out and stepping into an envisionment; (2) being in and moving through an envisionment; (3) stepping back and rethinking what one knows; and (4) stepping out and objectifying the…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Grade 7, Protocol Analysis, Reader Response
Peer reviewedAngelotti, Michael; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
A lowered heart rate is associated with involvement in reading.
Descriptors: Covert Response, Grade 7, Heart Rate, Language Research
Peer reviewedAltieri, Jennifer L. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1996
Determines if students' aesthetic involvement would be influenced by the ethnicity of the student or the culture portrayed in short stories. Finds that the level of aesthetic involvement was not significantly influenced by the ethnicity of the student or culture portrayed in the story. Supports the integration of multicultural literature into the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades
Download full textCobb, Susan M. – 1992
A study investigated to what extent average middle school students were able to perceive the social issues embedded in literature by Dr. Seuss. Seventy-four seventh-grade students responded to five Dr. Seuss stories in free-writing exercises, response worksheets, and question worksheets. Results showed that the majority of students (approximately…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students
Langer, Judith A. – 1989
A qualitative study examined the ways in which middle school and high school students create meanings when they are reading literary and non-literary texts. Subjects, 18 seventh-grade and 18 eleventh-grade students attending schools in an inner city or a suburban school district and judged by their teachers to be either above, at, or below average…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 11, Grade 7, Prose
Peer reviewedWest, Jane; And Others – New Advocate, 1992
Explores the reactions of fourth and seventh grade students to two picture books about Columbus written from two different perspectives (white European explorer and Native American). Notes that the fourth graders saw Columbus as either all good or all bad after reading the books but that seventh graders were able to recognize the complexities of…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Grade 4
Tobin, Barbara – 1990
In the 1970s and 1980s the white Australian author Patricia Wrightson's cross-cultural fantasies concerning the conflict of White characters with Aboriginal folk spirits struck a chord with many adolescent and adult readers who judged these novels to be outstandingly successful. A classroom-based study examined the responses of a class of seventh…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Childrens Literature, Fantasy
