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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Reader Response in Perspective.
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Sloan, Glenna – Journal of Children's Literature, 2002
Presents an overview of critical theory to show how the method of Reader Response evolved. Discusses theories of reading and the reader; variations within reader response; and implementing reader response in literacy programs. Includes a brief response by Robert E. Probst. (RS)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Reader Response
Multicultural Matters: An Interview with Philip Lee of Lee and Low Books.
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Sloan, Glenna – Journal of Children's Literature, 1999
Presents an interview with Philip Lee of Lee and Low Books about his experience in the specialized field committed solely to publishing books about Asian Americans and other diverse cultures in the United States. Discusses how the future of multicultural literature depends upon the concern and advocacy of interested individuals. (SC)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education
Toward Literacy through Literature: Ten to Take Along.
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Sloan, Glenna – Journal of Children's Literature, 1997
Suggests that helping children to discover that literary works are related to one another by conventions and recurring elements not only gives shape to their individual literary experiences, it also brings a sense of literature as a body of interrelated works. Discusses 10 works of children's literature that aid in children's growth toward…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literacy, Literary Criticism