The Students Choose: Instructional Text Selection by and for Students

• In Event: 68.060 - Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: 68.060-17 - Pedagogical Approaches to Support English Language Arts Preservice Teacher Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the ways student choice of instructional text impacted student learning and preservice teachers' literacy instruction during a summer reading course. Two research questions guided this study: (a) In what ways did preservice teachers’ use of genre change over time when children selected read-aloud texts to be used for instruction? (b) What opportunities were presented to the preservice teachers by having the children select texts and what were the consequences of those opportunities?

Authors

• Kim Skinner, Louisiana State University

• Estanislado S. Barrera, Louisiana State University

• Julie Parrish, Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge

• Mary Kathryn Hudson, Louisiana State University