Three Strategies for Sharing Literature with Young Students

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Three Strategies for Sharing Literature with Young Students
The following discussion identifies and explains three strategies for sharing literature with young students. Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss is used for this exercise which is designed to meet the needs of students in the second grade with emerging language skills.
Reader Response Strategy: Retaining the Characteristic of Play for Students
One of the most fundamental of all strategies for exposing children to literature is called reader response. This strategy is all about what researchers call aesthetic reading which focuses on the response of the reader to the text on a personal level. By doing so, encounters with literature can retain the characteristic of play which is a child’s...

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