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| Foreword to the Second Edition | p. xi |
| Foreword to the First Edition | p. xiii |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction: Really Among Schoolchildren | p. 1 |
| The Reading Struggle | p. 1 |
| Personal Readings | p. 4 |
| Children's Hour | p. 6 |
| Compelling Questions | p. 7 |
| Tentative Answers | p. 8 | ... MORE
| Setting the Task | p. 10 |
| Commentary: The Human and the Cultural | p. 12 |
| Moving Toward a Reader-Centered Classroom | p. 18 |
| The Bottom-Up Approach | p. 19 |
| Why Johnny Won't Read | p. 20 |
| There Is an Alternative | p. 24 |
| Getting Started | p. 26 |
| Building on Rosenblatt | p. 29 |
| Commentary: Be The Teacher | p. 32 |
| Looking at Student Reading | p. 38 |
| The Year Begins | p. 39 |
| What Makes Valid Reading? | p. 40 |
| Studying Student Response | p. 41 |
| Three Highly Engaged Readers: Cora, Joanne, and Ron | p. 43 |
| Why Read Literature? | p. 52 |
| Commentary: Looking for Tomorrow Instead of Toward Yesterday-The Power of Teacher Research | p. 54 |
| The Dimensions of the Reader's Response | p. 61 |
| Classroom Research Methods | p. 61 |
| The Dimensions | p. 67 |
| Surprises | p. 70 |
| Evocative Dimensions | p. 72 |
| Connective Dimensions | p. 88 |
| Reflective Dimension | p. 97 |
| Epilogue: What We Learned Together About Reading | p. 109 |
| Commentary: Literary Theorists, Hear My Cry! | p. 111 |
| Using Drama to Extend the Reader | p. 119 |
| Why Drama? | p. 121 |
| The Students: Kevin, Marvin, and Libby | p. 126 |
| Before Drama | p. 128 |
| Dramatic Happenings | p. 132 |
| The Moves They Made | p. 135 |
| Reading as Pleasure: "You Have to Live the Story" | p. 143 |
| Epilogue: The Potential of Drama | p. 145 |
| Commentary: Motivation and Methods | p. 147 |
| Reading Is Seeing | p. 153 |
| Still Struggling: Tommy, Walter, and Kae | p. 154 |
| Seeing the Visual Possibility | p. 157 |
| The Visualization Project: Art in the Classroom | p. 161 |
| The Art of Reading | p. 165 |
| Moving Toward a Reflective Response: "The Book Said All That" | p. 176 |
| Epilogue: Opening Doors with Art | p. 179 |
| Commentary: Seeing the Substantive Possibilities | p. 184 |
| Expanding Concepts of Reading, Response, and Literature | p. 188 |
| Reading as Engagement | p. 189 |
| Alternate Texts as Literature | p. 190 |
| Using Student Experiences: Art and Drama Activities | p. 191 |
| The Role of the Teacher | p. 192 |
| The Teacher as Researcher | p. 196 |
| Toward a Critical Literacy | p. 197 |
| Commentary: A Humane and Democratic Classroom | p. 202 |
| Questions and Activities for the Ten Dimensions of Reader Response | p. 207 |
| Revolving Role Drama Lesson Plans for The Incredible Journey | p. 221 |
| References | p. 227 |
| Stories and Poems Cited in the Text | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 237 |
| About the Author | p. 244 |
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