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anice F.
Almasi
University
at
Buffalo,
State University of
New York
Margaret
G.
McKeown
Isabel L. Beck
University of Pittsburgh
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The
goal of this investigation was to gain an understanding of engagement
as fourth graders and their teachers attempted to construct meaningful
interpretations during classroom discussions of literature. Data from
videotaped discussion, Weld notes, and interviews with students and
teachers were analyzed inductively. Engagement occurred when students
and teachers used interpretive tools to select, connect, and organize
information in the text to construct meaningful interpretations. The
context of the literary act and the culture of the classroom influenced
engaged reading. There were cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational
components to the engagement observed. |