Journal
Language Arts
The (Un)Making of a Reader
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Grades
K - 8
Type
Journal
Published
July 2000
Publisher
NCTE
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Description
Through looking critically at the underpinnings of "story mapping, a teacher uncovers a contradiction between the author's definition of reading as a constructive process and the reductionist nature of story mapping, which she shows inhibits students' potential to explore a diverse range of personal responses by promoting comprehension over response, uniformity over diversity, and control over freedom.