Listening to Their Voices Connect Literary and Cultural Understandings: Responses to Small Group Read-Alouds of "Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly.".

Copenhaver, Jeane F.

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ERIC Number: EJ632341

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Publication Date: 2001

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Listening to Their Voices Connect Literary and Cultural Understandings: Responses to Small Group Read-Alouds of "Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly."

Copenhaver, Jeane F.

New Advocate, v14 n4 p343-59 Fall 2001

Explores the kinds of literary understandings that become evident in African American second graders' unprompted oral and physical responses to "Malcolm X" and the cultural resources that children draw as they demonstrate these literary understandings. Concludes that discussion of multicultural literature can prompt the construction of complex literary understandings. (SG)

Descriptors: Comprehension, Cultural Differences, Grade 2, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Student Reaction

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Language: English

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