Readers Researching Their Reading: Creating a Community of Inquiry

This article explores how a group of ten fourth-grade students who were avid readers became a community of inquiry. Because the children’s reading experiences mattered to them, they were intrigued by documenting how they created, entered, and sustained the world of the story, and this fostered a spi...

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Published in	Language arts Vol. 86; no. 4; pp. 257 - 267
Main Author	Parsons, Linda T.
Format	Journal Article
Language	English
Published	Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01.03.2009
Subjects	Children Children & youth Childrens literature Clubs Coding Communities Community Community Relations Conversation Data collection Grade 4 Grade 5 Group Discussion Hierarchies Inquiry Instructional Materials Intermediate Grades Interpersonal relations Interpersonal Relationship Learner Engagement Learning Literacy Literature Memory Miscue Analysis Personal empowerment Personal relationships Qualitative research R&D Reader Response Reader Text Relationship Reading Reading Motivation Reading Processes Reading Strategies Recruitment Reflection Research & development Research methodology Researchers Roles Student Empowerment Students Studies Teacher Researchers Teachers Unicorns New York United States > US Ohio
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ISSN	0360-9170 1943-2402
DOI	10.58680/la20096990

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Summary:	This article explores how a group of ten fourth-grade students who were avid readers became a community of inquiry. Because the children’s reading experiences mattered to them, they were intrigued by documenting how they created, entered, and sustained the world of the story, and this fostered a spirit of inquiry.
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ISSN:	0360-9170 1943-2402
DOI:	10.58680/la20096990