This article describes a project that studied 15 preservice teachers' perceptions of and reactions to responding to children's and young adult literature using a Ning blog. These perceptions and reactions provided insight into various practical aspects of using a social networking blog to facilitate literature response in a teacher education…

Using a framework grounded in critical literacy, the author describes her 1st-grade students' responses to works of literature that portray the impact of war. When given opportunities to read works of literature that address social justice issues, such as the consequences of war, her primary-age students' written, drawn, and spoken responses were…

This article examines how Grade 5 students read and responded to two wordless picturebooks by Istvan Banyai, "Re-Zoom" (1995) and "Zoom" (1995). Analysis of the students' written responses revealed that they wrote about the books' structure and format, as well as their sense/meaning making processes. (Contains 1 figure, 1 footnote, and a list of…