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Publication Date: 2000
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Reader Response: Young Children Can Do That!
Lowe, Kaye; Johnston, Cammie
Dimensions of Early Childhood, v28 n1 p3-10 Win 2000
Describes "reader response" teaching techniques to enhance young children's critical thinking skills, build a sound literacy foundation, and clarify the relationship between reading and writing. Provides examples of response logs/journal entries, aesthetic responses such as drawings and dramatic reenactments, and student discussions incorporating prediction charts and story webs. Concludes that reader response can result in heightened interest in books. (KB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Evaluative Thinking, Primary Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Writing Relationship, Student Journals, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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