Learning About Literature While Reading With Children

Abstract

This article explores the assumptions teachers make about students’ -thinking and their intellectual and imaginative lives, and presents ways to -challenge those assumptions and see more clearly what Michael Armstrong called “thinking in all its forms.” It details a process of inquiry directed at -children's ideas based on practices of teacher research.

Key words::

• Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar
• literary response
• teacher inquiry
• teacher research.