Topic: Resaarch Abstracts

10-second review: remedial readers; response journals; writing and audience.

Title: “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” Research in the Teaching of English (December 1993), 423-437.

Summaries: Third- and fourth-grade remedial readers. Compared round-robin reading and Readers’ Theatre in which students acted out texts. The latter analyzed text, practiced skills and acted out interpretations. S.A. Wolf, 1992, p. 429. ……….. Response journals. Classes using response journals spoke more and on a wider range of topics, posed more questions, engaged in exploratory discourse, and linked their experience to the novel than did the other classes. M Kooy, 1991, p. 430. ………. Writing and audience. Sense of audience improved students’ motivation for writing. Genuine audience helped more than an imagined one. DF Conley, 1992, 433.