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Copyright © 2000
National Reading
Conference, Inc.

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JLR Journal of Literacy Research is an interdisciplinary journal publishing research related to literacy, language, and schooling from preschool through adulthood. Articles published in JLR consist of original research, critical reviews of research, conceptual analyses, and theoretical essays. JLR publishes research concerning all aspects of reading and writing including the interrelationships among the various uses of language that affect literacy. Investigations of the social, affective, cognitive, pedagogical, technological, and political dimensions of literacy are appropriate for publication in JLR. Articles represent diverse research paradigms and theoretical orientations, and they employ a variety of methodologies and modes of inquiry. JLR serves as a forum for sharing divergent areas of research and pedagogy and encourages manuscripts that open dialogue among professionals in a variety of disciplines.

 

Volume 32
Number 2
June 2000
Reader Response Issue

Introduction
The Editors

Connecting, Resisting, and Searching for Safer Places: Students Respond to Mildred Taylor's The Friendship
Karla J. Möller & JoBeth Allen

Weaving Chains of Affect and Cognition: A Young Child's Understanding of CD-ROM Talking Books
Linda D. Labbo & Melanie R. Kuhn

Gendered Readings of a Traditional "Feminist" Folktale by Sixth-Grade Boys and Girls
Peggy S. Rice

Critical Issues
Reading and Responding to Literature at the Level of Activity
Richard Beach
Limits of Identification: The Personal, Pleasurable, and Critical in Reader Response
Cynthia Lewis
Researching Complexity
Dennis J. Sumara

Critical Issues Responses
Reflections, Connections, and Imperfections
JoBeth Allen & Karla Möller
Exploring the Invitation to Consider the Complexities of Reader Response
Linda D. Labbo & Melanie R. Kuhn
Revisiting Gendered Readings
Peggy S. Rice

Book Review
Larry Mikulecky