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Why Literature?: The Value of Literary Reading and What It Means for Teaching

reviewed by Kristine Gritter - November 04, 2011

Title: Why Literature?: The Value of Literary Reading and What It Means for Teaching
Author(s): Cristina Vischer Bruns
Publisher: Continuum, New York
ISBN: 1441124659, Pages: 176, Year: 2011
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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, Date Published: November 04, 2011
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Kristine Gritter Seattle Pacific University E-mail Author KRISTINE GRITTER, assistant professor at Seattle Pacific University, is a literacy and literature instructor of children�s literature. Her research interests include textual discussions of literature characterized by high student involvement. She has published articles about this topic in recent journals including Promoting Livelier Literature Discussion (Reading Teacher) and an upcoming article on the topic of literature discussions in tracked middle school classrooms in Research in the Teaching of English (February 2012).

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