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How Texts Teach What Readers Learn in a Digital Age
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Taylor, Lucy – English in Education, 2022
This paper focuses on "How Texts Teach What Readers Learn" (Meek, 1988) and considers how texts teach readers in a digital age. I use Meek's book as a frame for exploring the ways children learn about narration, structure, voice, discourse and language, and becoming an "insider" in the text. To demonstrate this, I use Meek's…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Reading Instruction, Writing (Composition), Reading Processes
What Reader-Oriented Literary and Cognitive Theories Have to Give to Composing Theory.
Liebman-Kleine, JoAnne – 1985
In developing an interactive model of composing, this paper discusses three groups of reader-oriented theories, each of which provides composing theorists with some research and theory to use in developing such a model. First the paper discusses the main principle of the literary reader-response theorists--that the meaning and value of texts do…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Reader Response
Reading and Writing in an American Grain.
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Wiley, Mark – Rhetoric Review, 1992
Suggests focusing historical narratives explaining composition's emergence and search for an identity by concentrating on the changing face of rhetoric within institutional settings. Investigates the cultural history of the term "process." Explores what the unacknowledged cultural values "process" bring to reading and writing and the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Literature and Discussion in the Reading Program (Research Directions).
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Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – Language Arts, 1992
Illustrates how social interaction with high quality literature can foster the literacy process of responding to literature with the student's own voice. Demonstrates ways that particular instructional processes can foster critical literacy processes as students share their interpretations of quality literature. (MG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Journal Writing
Reading and Writing Together: New Perspectives for the Classroom.
Shanahan, Timothy, Ed. – 1990
Intended for elementary teachers, reading specialists, curriculum directors, and teacher trainers, this book provides readers with conceptual and theoretical insights and compelling accounts of classroom practice. The book argues that teaching and learning work best when they occur within a community of learners. The book provides interpretations…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading. Fourth Edition.
Ruddell, Robert B., Ed.; And Others – 1994
Serving as a source of questions for researchers to investigate and a resource for professors and their students, this book presents 51 essays that discuss where the reading field has been, is now, and might be going. More than 80% of the essays are new or revised from the third edition. Essays in the book include "Professional Connections:…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Metacognition, Models, Reader Response
In the Middle: Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents.
Atwell, Nancie – 1987
With important implications for all language arts teachers, grades kindergarten through 12, this book is about what one teacher and her eighth grade students learned together as collaborating writers and readers. It is also a book about adolescents themselves: how they learn, what they believe and value, and what others can learn from and about…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Environment, Journal Writing, Junior High Schools