Correlative Thinking: Writing Analogies about Literature.
- Resource Type
- Journal Articles
Guides - Classroom - Teacher
- Authors
- McGonigal, Elizabeth
- Source
- English Journal. Jan 1988 77(1):66-67.
- Subject
- Critical Reading
Critical Thinking
English Instruction
Literary Criticism
Reader Response
Secondary Education
Teaching Methods
- Language
- English
Explains how analogies teach students to read critically as well as independently. Presents examples of student-written analogies, and notes that this exercise gives students confidence in their powers of literary interpretation. (MM)