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Tag: Teaching Reading Strategies
Reading Incentive Ideas
As an M.A. reading specialist, I have served in elementary, middle school, high school, and community college settings. Getting kids and adults to put down their…
Level Books with Word Recognition
Much better to affirm parental judgment in terms of which books are challenging for their own children. Even much better to equip students with self-selection of…
Diagnostic Reading and Spelling Assessments
Elementary, secondary, and adult English language-arts and reading intervention teachers need comprehensive literacy assessments to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses for individual students and their classes. Following…
Forget Sans Forgetica
The most recent "closure" and "desirable difficulty" theory to practice misapplication is the Sans Forgetica font. If you haven’t seen this new one, some researchers are…
The Reader, The Text, The Poem
Louise Rosenblatt's The Reader, The Text, The Poem describes the elements of her Reader-Response Theory. Learn how to teach the author-reader relationship.
Talking with the Author
Louise Rosenblatt's Reader-Response Theory remains at the forefront of reading research and practice. My Talking with the Author reading strategy helps readers interact with the author…
Formalism and New Criticism
As a reaction to the Reader-Response Theory, beginning in the late 1960s, some reading researchers, philosophers, and especially university English professors began to advocate a different theory…
Reader-Response Theory
One reading theory and body of research which attempts to describe the author-reader relationship is Reader-Response Theory. In this theory, the text serves as a blueprint…