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Learning From Children Reading Books: Transactional Theory and the…
Learning From Children Reading Books: Transactional Theory and the Teaching of Literature.
Galda's doctoral dissertation: "Three Children Reading Stories"
Allows her to see how those readers' experiences, beliefs and preferences influenced the meaning they created.
She was convinced that young children engaged in a complex dance of meaning construction as they read.
Allows her to explore how those children brought their varying ideas into small-group discussion.
This research shows her how interesting small-group discussions could be.
Allows her to see how their understandings of how a story works influenced their reading of the two novels.
What she discovered
Reader's respond to literature is somewhere on a movable point of a continuum of efferent and aesthetic stances
an active reader engaging with a text for a particular purpose was compelling
as the older readers were more analytical in their responses and more likely to offer generalizations than were the younger readers who tended to speak in terms of carefully defined categories
the importance of motivation to read and engagement in books
what students were doing in their classrooms profoundly influenced how they were responding to the books I asked them to read outside of the classroom, and even how they read them
the opportunity to read from both aesthetic and efferent stances was important to these young readers
it was important for them to understand that there are many ways to respond and many opinions about the cultural authenticity of any given book
If we support readers as they read aesthetically, evoking their own poems, and allow them time to think, write, and talk about their experiences, reading a powerful book can become an event that just might change the world, one reader at a time
As a teacher...
encouraging students to use their comprehensive strategies and to make various kinds of intertextual connections
allow students opportunities to think and talk about books in such a way that they understand themselves better.
Making connections between life and text and recognizing yourself in books
allow students the opportunity to evoke their own poem with the books we ask them to read before we even begin to fo anything with those books, whether discussion or action, literary study or social change.
The Importance of Motivation to Read and Engagement in Books
Help them to become fluent readers
Enter into others' experience
Offer us the opportunity to contemplate both ourselves and others
Know how to respond to literature