Reader response in secondary and college classrooms

I. Transactional Theory of Literature

1. Transactional Theory of Literature / Nicholas J. Karolides

2. Connecting Students and Literature: What Do Teachers Do and Why Do They Do It? / Robert C. Small

3. "The Guy Who Wrote This Poem Seems to Have the Same Feelings as You Have": Reader-Response Methodology / Leila Christenbury

4. Writing From, of, and About Literature / Robert E. Probst

II. Initiating Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes

5. Reader Response at the Movies / Joy Gould Boyum

6. Mending Walls: Using a Reader-Response Approach to Teach Poetry / Ron Luce

7. Two Reader-Response Classrooms: Using Prereading Activity and Readers Theatre Approaches / Patricia P. Kelly

8. "I Understood the Grief": Theory-Based Introduction to Ordinary People / Deborah Appleman

III. Developing Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes

9. Teaching Eudora Welty's "Petrified Man": Expanding Preliminary Insights / Marshall Toman

10. Reader Response to Drama: Prospecting for Human Understandings and Connections / Linda Varvel

11. Hill Climbing With Thoreau: Creating Meaningful Carryover / Mary Jo Schaars

12. Intensifying Transactions Through Multiple Text Exploration: A Literature Circle Approach to Novels Set in the United States During World War II / Elizabeth A. Poe

13. Role-Playing Experiences: Expanding Readers' Responses to Literature / Nicholas J. Karolides

14. Writing-to-Learn/Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Antigone / Duane H. Roen

IV. Exploring Differences: Gender, Race and Culture

15. Trifles as Treason: Coming to Consciousness as a Gendered Reader / Laura Quinn

16. Reading and Teaching From the Outside: Responding to Native American Literature / David W. Furniss

17. Cultivating Understandings Through Reader Response: Dawn's Responses to The Things They Carried and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places / Arlette Ingram Willis

18. Teacher Learning in Response to Autobiographical Literature / Jocelyn Glazier, Mary McVee and Susan Wallace-Cowell / [et al.]

19. Calypso, Jazz, Reggae, Salsa: Literature, Response, and the African Diaspora / Linda A. Spears-Bunton

20. Reader Responses to Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz": Exploring Different Perspectives / Jean E. Brown and Louise Garcia Harrison.