Writing About Books of Choice: Building a Classroom Community in a Middle School English Language Arts Classroom
Description
This qualitative dissertation study examines the use of shared writing about books of choice in an eighth-grade English Language Arts classroom. Drawing on data collected from 23 eighth-grade students, this study investigates how sharing writing in a classroom community impacts how students connect with a novel and how sharing writing helps to shape students’ writing practices and identity. The qualitative data collected for this study includes open-ended surveys, written reflections, interviews,teacher-researcher field notes, and examples of student work and writing. The findings of this study demonstrate the value of book choice, the benefits of peer interaction and feedback, and the usefulness of multimodal composition. These findings present ways that secondary teachers can improve both writing instruction and literature study.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2020
Agent
- Author (aut): Towner, Shawn
- Thesis advisor (ths): Singer Early, Jessica
- Committee member: Graham, Steve
- Committee member: Saidy, Christina
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University