Research Currents: When Children Respond to Fiction.

Graves, Donald H.

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Publication Date: 1989

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Research Currents: When Children Respond to Fiction.

Graves, Donald H.

Language Arts, v66 n7 p776-83 Nov 1989

Focuses on letter writing as a way of evaluating children's growth as responders to fiction. Points out that not all children will enter into letter writing with equal success but concludes that it is a potentially powerful tool for teaching and learning. (MG)

Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Fiction, Letters (Correspondence), Reader Response, Reading Instruction, Student Evaluation, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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