Responding to Literature

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Responding to Literature

• Reutzel Cooter, Chapter 15
• EDRG 6350

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The stances of response

• Efferent
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• Aesthetic
• Feelings

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Making Connections

• Text to text
• Text to self
• Text to world
• Discuss Why is the idea of making connections
  so effective? How do you include this idea in
  your instruction and assessment of literature
  response?

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Why and how to respond to text?

• To gather information
• To make information come alive
• To critically read text
• To share information with others
• Discuss What is your favorite method of
  responding to text? Does it allow both efferent
  and aesthetic response? Were there any new ideas
  in the text you liked? Why?