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EJ607874 CS759394
Title: The Construction of Literary Understanding by First and Second Graders in Oral Response To Picture Storybook Read-Alouds.
Author(s): Sipe, Lawrence R.
Source: Reading Research Quarterly, v35 n2 p252-75 Apr-Jun 2000
Publication Date: 2000
ISSN: 0034-0553
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJDEC2000
Describes what constituted literary understanding for one classroom interpretive community of first and second graders by analyzing their oral responses as picture storybooks were read aloud to them. Suggests that the impressive literary critical abilities of children as young as first and second grade are appropriately understood through a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. (SC)
Descriptors: *Childrens Literature; Grade 1; Grade 2; Listening Comprehension; *Literary Criticism; *Picture Books; Primary Education; *Reading Aloud to Others; *Student Reaction

