EJ402232 CS739198
Title: The Written Responses of Young Children: Beyond Comprehension to Story Understanding.
Author(s): Barone, Diane
Source: New Advocate, v3 n1 p49-56 Win 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Non-classroom (055); Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUN1990
Describes the use of dialogue journals to integrate reading and writing in a mixed-grade, mixed-ability (1-3) classroom. Describes student responses (retellings, clarifications, personal subjective responses, and interpretive comments). Advocates that students write continually as they read through a text. Demonstrates that dialogue journals can be used effectively with young children. (SR)
Descriptors: *Childrens Literature; Primary Education; Reading Comprehension; *Reading Writing Relationship; *Student Journals; Student
Writing Models; Teaching Methods
Identifiers: *Dialogue Journals; *Response to Literature
