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Learning From Children Reading Books: Transactional Theory and the…

- - - - reading books allows us the opportunity for transformation, for a shaping & reshaping of how we view ourselves and the world around us
      - We also must allow them (children) to think & talk about books in such a way that they understand themselves better
    - - students need to experience a text in their own ways before we do anything else with the text, including looking at the cultural aspects of it
      - understand, exploring, creating, expressive - the outcome that we want when children got engaged with books and reading
      - 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 might change the world. One reader at a time.
- - - - Reading a literary work of art, Britton argues, is to "enter into the experiences of other people" (p154), and this, in turn, offers us the opportunity to contemplate both ourselves and others