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Promoting Lively Literature Discussion
Author(s) -
Gritter Kristine
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.64.6.7
Subject(s) - reading comprehension , comprehension , reading (process) , class (philosophy) , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence
When students create personal connections with literature during whole‐class discussion, they make sense both of text and of their life experiences. In this article, the author shares tips that help students make text‐to‐self, text‐to‐world, and text‐to‐text connections. She offers classroom examples to illustrate how conversations that encourage these connections can benefit reading comprehension.