Correlative Thinking: Writing Analogies about Literature.

McGonigal, Elizabeth

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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

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Language: English

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