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Copyright © 2000
National Reading
Conference, Inc.

The Nature of Engaged Reading in Classroom Discussions of Literature

anice F. Almasi
University at
Buffalo,
State University of
New York

Margaret G.
McKeown
Isabel L. Beck
University of Pittsburgh

  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.
JLR
v. 28 no. 1
1996
pp. 107–146