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- Title
Promoting Lively Literature Discussion.
- Authors
Gritter, Kristine
- Abstract
The article presents a series of suggestions for ways that teachers can use particular teaching methods to make in-class discussion of literature more exciting for their students. It is noted that such discussions can improve students' literacy and help them to connect the texts that they are reading to themselves, other works, and the world. One suggestion is to allow students to discuss the assigned reading in small groups or to write their observations in a journal. Another suggestion lays out a series of rules to create an appropriate classroom environment that will foster discussion, including rules about eye contact, the placement of the students' chairs, and classroom management practices. Another suggestion is to teach students how to ask engaging questions about the reading.
- Subjects
DISCUSSION in education; LITERACY; TEACHING methods; PRIOR learning; CLASSROOM management; CLASSROOM activities; TEACHER-student communication; STUDENT-centered learning
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2011, Vol 64, Issue 6, p445
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.64.6.7