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ERIC Number: EJ374813
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Correlative Thinking: Writing Analogies about Literature.
McGonigal, Elizabeth
English Journal, v77 n1 p66-67 Jan 1988
Explains how analogies teach students to read critically as well as independently. Presents examples of student-written analogies, and notes that this exercise gives students confidence in their powers of literary interpretation. (MM)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Reader Response, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Analogies; Correlative Thinking; Response to Literature; Writing about Literature