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EJ616141 CS759888

Title: "I Just Need To Draw": Responding to Literature across Multiple Sign Systems.
Author(s): Short, Kathy G.; Kauffman, Gloria; Kahn, Leslie H.
Source: Reading Teacher, v54 n2 p160-71 Oct 2000
Publication Date: 2000
ISSN: 0034-0561
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAY2001

Explores how students take what they understand through reading and talking about literature and express their ideas in art, drama, music, or math. Argues that one way learners push their understandings and create more complex meanings is through such transmediation. Offers examples of responding to literature through multiple sign systems. (SR)

Descriptors: Art; *Art Expression; Class Activities; Creative Dramatics; Dramatic Play; Elementary Education; *Literature Appreciation; Mathematics; Music; *Reader Text Relationship; *Reading Instruction; Writing Instruction
Identifiers: *Response to Literature

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