Learning To Use Literature Response Journals: Lessons from the Classroom.

Kakkos, Athanasios Tommy

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ERIC Number: EJ603144

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Learning To Use Literature Response Journals: Lessons from the Classroom.

Kakkos, Athanasios Tommy

English Quarterly, v30 n3-4 p51-63 1998

A teacher reflects about his first experience in using response journals in his literature classroom and his attempt to use the extant research and other teachers' suggestions. Response journals helped most of his secondary students to change from passive to active readers. Discusses techniques and concerns about implementing response journals. (RS)

Descriptors: English Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Journal Writing, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Attitudes, Secondary Education, Teaching Experience

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

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Language: English

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