Responding and Comprehending: Reading With Delight and Understanding

When response activities and comprehension strategies are combined, classroom instruction can enhance student engagement and understanding of a text, enrich student response, and improve students' awareness of their own strategic reading. This article presents some activities, adapted from the...

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2009-12, Vol.63 (4), p.330-333
Main Authors: Liang, Lauren Aimonette, Galda, Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
American literature
Analysis
Anthologies
Childrens Literature
Comprehension
DiCamillo, Kate
Educational Facilities Improvement
Elementary School Students
Elementary School Teachers
Feedback (Response)
Grades (Scholastic)
Inferences
IRA Bookshelf
Language Usage
Learner Engagement
Learning
Learning Activities
Literature
Mental imagery
Metacognition
Methods
Middle School Students
Middle Schools
Novels
Picture books
Poetry
Preschool Children
Reader Response
Reading Comprehension
Reading Instruction
Reading Programs
Reading Skills
Reading teachers
Student Improvement
Student Interests
Student Participation
Student Reaction
Students
Teaching Methods
Visual Stimuli
Visualization
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Summary:When response activities and comprehension strategies are combined, classroom instruction can enhance student engagement and understanding of a text, enrich student response, and improve students' awareness of their own strategic reading. This article presents some activities, adapted from the new IRA book "Children's Literature in the Reading Program" (third edition), which demonstrate how to combine the goals of strategic reading and responsive, aesthetic reading. (Contains 1 table.)
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI:10.1598/RT.63.4.9