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ERIC Number: EJ227701
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Feb
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The Inferences We Make: Children and Literature.
Petrosky, Anthony R.
Language Arts, v57 n2 p149-56 Feb 1980
Discusses classroom literary practices related to teacher questioning, retelling, literalism, and figurative language for children in the concrete operational stage; concludes that recent research on response to literature may say as much about what children are taught to do as what they do developmentally. Offers suggestions about teaching reading and literature. (GT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Figurative Language, Literature Appreciation, Questioning Techniques, Reading Instruction, Research Problems, Research Utilization
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Piaget (Jean); Reader Response