Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ674452
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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What More Needs Saying about Imagination?
Spencer, Margaret Meek
Reading Teacher, v57 n1 p105-11 Sep 2003
Contends that for children learning to read, imagination is not something separate or extra that their teachers add to their learning. Notes that how hard children work to make sense of the world is evinced in their play and in research analyses of it. Explains that young imaginations often move into a mental space they recognize from what they read. (PM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Imagination, Literacy, Metaphors, Reading Instruction, Student Attitudes, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Originally prepared as a paper for the opening plenary session of the International Reading Association World Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, in July 2002.
