High school English teacher Jesse Breite says performance and play can deepen students' experience of a literary work.

Mary Clare Courtland, Mary Ellen French, Sandra Owston, Virginia Stead, Literary Text, the Reader, and the Power of Shared Response, Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, ...

This study describes the ways readers create meaning from literary texts. Though many have investigated written response to literature, few have looked at readers' initial responses to a text from ...