| A | B |
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| Aesthetic stance | attention is focused on personal response to what is read. |
| book talks | discussion opportunities for children to engage in conversations about their responses to reading books from class core study, reading workshops, or literature circles |
| community of readers | The conceptualization of children, in alliance with their friends and teacher, working together in classrooms where school reading, imitates adult reading, an effect created by literature-based programs |
| core books | collection of books that forms the nucleus of a school reading program at each grade level usually selected by a curriculum committee |
| efferent stance | attention is focused on accumulating information from the text. |
| free response | active involvement or participation in reading through discussion or writing that includes inferential, evaluative, and analytic thinking about a book based on the reader's response |
| integrated instruction/thematic instruction | another name for literature units. |
| literature-based reading program | reading program based on instructional practices and student activities using literature, books, novels, short stories, magazines, plays, and poems that have not been rewritten for instructional purposes |
| literature circles | discussion or study group based on a collaborative strategy involving self selection of books for reading; each group consists of students who indepdendently selected the same book |
| literature journals | journal that invites readers to respond to literary texts; less structured than reading logs and other journals |
| literature units | a lesson organized around book collections featuring unifying elements such as genre, author, or conceptual theme. |
| read aloud | generally a group event in which literature is read orally |
| reader-response theory | a belief that responsibility for constructing textual meaning resides primarily with the reader and depends to a great extent on the reader's prior knowledge and experience |
| reading workshops | method intoduced by Nancie Atwell, for integrating the language arts around literature through an organizational framework that allows readers to demonstrate reading strategies by responding to books and sharing meaning with their peers. |
| storytelling | the act of telling a story orally without the use of text |
