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ERIC Number: EJ422731
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
Planning for Spontaneity: Supporting the Language of Thinking.
Miller, Suzanne
English Journal, v80 n3 p51-56 Mar 1991
Shares the observations of an educator visiting a high school classroom. Comments on how planning can support students' initial responses and their deeper thinking. Argues that teachers of literature can be both intuitively planful and planfully spontaneous in providing students with powerful language tools for shaping personal meaning. (MG)
Descriptors: Audience Response, English Curriculum, English Instruction, High Risk Students, High Schools, Journal Writing, Student Reaction, Teacher Behavior, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Literature Based Instruction; Literature Study