Response to Britton article: The content of this article remained a mystery to me until we discussed it in class yesterday (Thank you, April, and peers!!!). Britton basically covers three kinds of writing: Transactional, Expressive and Poetic (formal). Wandering through the maze of this article provided some great mental exercise, but I am afraid I cannot come up with a light bulb response to the article. I remembered a statistic I read somewhere in grad school years ago – reading aloud to a child and answering his/her questions can raise that child’s IQ by 5 percent. This was in response to the Britton discussion, “As the child becomes more familiar with diverse forms of the written language…he will draw more and more upon those forms in his own writing.” I am not sure why I made the connection to oral reading. Much of this article seemed theoretical to me and rather impractical for the classroom teacher.
Okay, so it's been hit and miss
11 years ago
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I had to read your comments after laughing at the apropos (?Sp) title for the Britton article. I know it took me four readings plus our discussion to make sense of it. I still question the 5-10% about spectator versus participant.
His thought process on paper was somewhat like a British comedy. Britton reminds me of an absent-minded professor who knows so much he has a hard time organizing it for the average intelligence-level reader.
Thanks for the smile,
Susan
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