Download or read book The Practice of Reading written by Denis Donoghue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read texts closely and imaginatively, as opposed to merely or mistakenly theorizing about them. He shows what serious reading entails by discussing texts that range from Shakespeare's plays to a novel by Cormac McCarthy. Donoghue begins with a personal chapter about his own early experiences reading literature while he was living and teaching in Ireland. He then deals with issues of theory, focusing on the validity of different literary theories, on words and their performances, on the impingement of oral and written conditions of reading, and on such current forces as technology and computers that impinge on the very idea of reading. Finally he examines certain works of literature: Shakespeare's Othello and Macbeth, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a passage from Wordsworth's The Prelude, a chapter of Joyce's Ulysses, Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" and "Coole and Ballylee, 1931," and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian demonstrating what these texts have in common and how they must be differentiated through a sympathetic, imaginative, and informed reading.
Download or read book The Idea and Practice of Reading written by R. Joseph Ponniah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses basic issues in language education and explores how reading, with a focus on meaning, contributes to the development of all aspects of language including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and syntax. It departs from traditional methods and practices in language learning to investigate the potency of reading in improving language acquisition. The traditional practice in language classes to teach language skills explicitly through acquiring forms and structures of language is often less than successful, and teachers are gradually incorporating reading materials and practices into the curriculum. This book provides important inputs to language teachers and educators on the need to include reading as an idea and as a practice into the curriculum. Among other things, it explores the benefits of incidental learning of language properties such as vocabulary, syntax and grammar and gives adequate exposure to different types of reading strategies to promote reading among learners. It also exploits the possible transfer of L1 reading strategies and capabilities to L2 reading for language acquisition. In so doing, this book hopes to promote autonomous learning among L2 learners and guide readers in alternative strategies to solve comprehension problems.
Download or read book New Practice Readers written by Donald George Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practice and Representation of Reading in England written by James Raven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.
Download or read book Reading and the Body written by Thomas Mc Laughlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary theory has been dominated by a mind/body dualism that often eschews the role of the body in reading. Focusing on reading as a physical practice, McLaughlin analyzes the role of the eyes, the hands, postures and gestures, bodily habits and other physical spaces, with discussions ranging from James Joyce to the digital future of reading.
Download or read book The Practice of Reading written by Derek Alsop and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 1999-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the art of interpreting the novel in the context of developments in literary theory and criticism. Believing that reading is or should be a pleasurable, creative activity, the authors analyze a range of seven novels from the 18th century to the present.
Download or read book Religious Reading written by Paul J. Griffiths and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What social conditions and intellectual practices are necessary in order for religious cultures to flourish? Paul Griffiths finds the answer in "religious reading" --- the kind of reading in which a religious believer allows his mind to be furnished and his heart instructed by a sacred text, understood in the light of an authoritative tradition. He favorably contrasts the practices and pedagogies of traditional religious cultures with those of our own fragmented and secularized culture and insists that religious reading should be preserved.
Download or read book Reading as a Philosophical Practice written by Robert Piercey and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading—everyday reading for pleasure—matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To passionate readers, it is a way of working through, and taking a stand on, certain fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things. The book examines the lessons that the activity of reading seems to teach about selfhood, morality and ontology, and it tries to clarify the sometimes paradoxical claims that serious readers have made about it. To do so, it proposes an original theoretical framework based on Virginia Woolf’s notion of the common reader and Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of practice. It also asks whether reading can continue to play this role as paper is replaced by electronic screens.
Download or read book Reading Process and Practice written by Constance Weaver and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and revised, this text begins with a discussion of the reading process. New to this edition are chapters on characterizing whole language principles and practices and growing into whole language teaching of writing, reading, literature, and theme study.
Download or read book Reading 2000 Practice Book with Selection Tests Grade 1 6 written by Scott Foresman and published by Pearson Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Foresman Reading (©2000) components for Grade 1.
Download or read book Scott Foresman Reading written by Peter Afflerbach and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive reading and phonics program textbook series for grades K-6. Library has a sample of the different parts for all grade levels.
Download or read book The Practice of Reading written by Denis Donoghue and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practice of Reading written by Derek Alsop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practice of Reading is a lucid and lively examination of the art of interpreting the novel in the context of recent developments in literary theory and criticism. Believing that reading is - or should be - a pleasurable, creative activity, the authors analyse a range of seven novels from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing upon the experiential dimensions of the reading process. What is the role of the reader? What happens when a novel is read? How far does meaning depend on the reader, and how far on the text? These and other related questions are explored in readings of novels as diverse as Tristram Shandy, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Daniel Deronda, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Beckett's Trilogy and Possession. In its insistence upon a return to the practice of close reading, the book represents a timely intervention in current literary debates. An accessible, informative and above all stimulating text for all university and college students of literature.
Download or read book Guided Practice for Reading Growth Grades 4 8 written by Laura Robb and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided Practice for Reading Growth provides all you need to support middle grade students reading two or more years below grade level. Twenty-four powerful reading lessons feature original poems and short texts that interest students and encourage them to think deeply. This unique book shows you how to: · Build students’ background knowledge by watching and discussing videos. · Use poems to improve reading and fluency through practice and performance. · Invite students to write about their reading and increase comprehension and recall. · Encourage meaningful talk to enlarge students’ analytical thinking and understanding.
Download or read book The Practice and Politics of Reading 650 1500 written by Daniel G. Donoghue and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée.
Download or read book Practice for reading written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guided Practice for Reading Growth Grades 4 8 written by Laura Robb and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use these lessons to build developing readers’ skill and desire to read, read, read! This book will be your guide as you support middle grade students who are reading two or more years below grade level. The lessons enlarge students’ vocabulary and background knowledge and engage them in meaningful discussions and writing about their reading. As students’ reading skill and desire to read increases, you’ll watch them complete more independent reading and ramp up their reading volume—the practice they need to improve! Guided Practice for Reading Growth provides all you need to get started. Laura Robb and poet David L. Harrison have collaborated to design twenty-four powerful reading lessons using original poems and short texts that interest your students and encourage them to think deeply. The opening chapters offer background knowledge for the lessons and teaching tips, then the bulk of this book consists of lessons—with full texts and suggested videos provided. Guided practice lessons are the instructional piece that can move developing readers forward by building their self-confidence and the reading expertise needed to read to learn and for pleasure. This unique book shows you how to: · Build students’ background knowledge by watching and discussing videos. · Use the poems to improve reading and to improve fluency through practice and performance. · Invite students to write about their reading and increase comprehension and recall. · Ask partners to discuss before, during, and after reading as meaningful talk enlarges students’ analytical thinking and understanding. · Design your own lessons for students with extra texts by David L. Harrison in the appendix. Use this book to develop students’ self-confidence and the reading skill they require to become lifelong, joyful readers!
