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Building a Literate Community: Report from an NEH Literature Institute for Teachers

By: Angus Dunstan
Publication: The Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3
Date: Summer 1989

Summary: A key generalization derived at this institute: in reading and writing, students need to choose texts for themselves and frame writing for themselves to discover ways their personal stories connect with the literature they read.

 

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