| Description |
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Language and literacy series |
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Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / P. David Pearson -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Literary understanding : a neglected part of the literacy landscape -- The marginalization of reading aloud to young children -- Why another theory? -- Audience -- pt. 1. Picturebooks and children's responses -- 1. Picturebooks and children's responses -- Examining picturebooks -- Reading the sings : semiotic perspectives -- Perspectives from visual aesthetic theory -- The relationship of text and pictures -- Research on children's responses to picturebooks -- 2. Young children's literary understanding : either text or reader -- The social constructivist paradigm and Vygotsky's sociocultural approach -- Talk in the classroom -- Cognitive perspectives on children's comprehension of narratives -- Literary perspectives on using literature in the classroom -- 3. Young children's literary understanding : between text and reader -- The middle ground : Iser and Rosenblatt -- Britton's participant and spectator stances -- Benton's construct of the secondary world -- Langer's model of envisionment -- Bogdan's theory of reader stances -- Can't we just enjoy literature? The theorization of pleasure -- Research about literary talk in the classroom -- |
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pt. 2. Five aspects of literary understanding and their interrelationships -- 4. Introducing the categories of response and the first type of analytical response -- The categories of children's responses -- Examples of the five conceptual categories -- Analytical response 1A : making narrative meaning -- 5. Other types of analytical response -- Analytical response 1B : the book is made object or cultural product -- Analytical response 1C : the language of the text -- Analytical response 1D : analysis of illustrations and other visual matter -- Analysis response 1E : relationships between fiction and reality -- 6. Intertextual responses : how stories "lean" on stories (and other texts) -- Three types of intertextual connections -- The roles of intertextual connections -- The power of text sets -- Intertextual resistance to stories -- 7. Personal response : drawing the story to the self -- Life-to-text connections -- Text-to-life connections -- Other personal connections -- Children's personal resistance to stories -- 8. Transparent and performative responses -- Transparent response : entering the storyworld -- Performative response : the text as a platform for children's creativity -- 9. A grounded theory of the literary understanding of young children -- Five facets of literary understanding -- Blurring the categories -- Three basic literary impulses -- Connections to other theoretical models -- The dynamics of literary understanding -- |
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pt. 3. Teachers as enablers of children's meaning-making and implications for pedagogy and further research -- 10. Teachers' and children's roles in enabling literary understanding -- What is scaffolding? -- Five conceptual categories for adult talk -- Examples of the categories of adult talk -- Scaffolding provided by category 1 : reader -- Scaffolding provided by category 2 : manager and encourager -- Scaffolding provided by category 3 : clarifier/prober -- Scaffolding provided by category 4 : fellow wonderer/speculator -- Scaffolding provided by category 5 : extender/refiner -- Storytelling : Mrs. Martin's style of reading and scaffolding -- types of teacher questions -- Children's enabling of their peers' response and understanding -- 11. What's the point of literary understanding? : implications for practice, research, and beyond -- Pedagogical implications of the studies -- Further research -- Beyond literacy : what good is literary understanding, anyway? -- Appendix A : The research studies for this book -- Appendix B : A glossary of picturebook terminology -- Appendix C : Transcription conventions -- Children's literature references -- References -- Index-- About the author. |
| Subject |
Language arts (Elementary) -- United States.
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Reading (Elementary) -- United States.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780807748282 paperback alkaline paper |
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0807748285 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780807748299 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807748293 cloth alkaline paper |
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