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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Retellings"”.
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The Significance of Maintaining Character Integrity in Literary Retellings
<p>Retellings of popular stories have become a prevalent form of storytelling in media and literature. This paper explores the background of the genre and the drive for creators to reimagine older stories, while also considering the “why” behind retellings. The claim is that maintaining the …
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The Effects of the Use of Retellings on the Listening Comprehension of First Grade Students
… the effects of direct teaching of the use of retellings on the listening comprehension of twenty-two first grade students from a public elementary school in Western New York. The examiner administered the listening comprehension portion of The Bader Reading and Language Inventory to determine …
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The effects of four different text structures on the retellings of fourth and sixth grade students
… on fourth and sixth grade students' written retellings. Although previous research has shown that text structure can assist in understanding and recalling text, little work has been done with the use of different expository text structures by elementary school students, who typically have …
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Cyborgs, Wolves, and Aliens, Oh My: Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles and Diversity in YA Fairy Tale Retellings
… In showcasing more recent YA fairy tale retellings, the final chapter seeks to draw some tentative conclusions about the continuing importance of diversity and inclusiveness in an evolving genre of reimagined fairy tales for a young adult audience.
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Trends in Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Children's Fairy Tales
… trends in power dynamics in contemporary retellings of children’s fairy tales in regard to gender and sexuality. It opens with a brief history of the fairy tale genre and the foundation of the Western fairy tale canon. I will primarily analyze The Walt Disney Company’s recent films, Brave, …
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Looking At A More Comprehensive Picture Of Reading As Enacted By Second-Grade Readers
… analyzing Reading Miscue Inventories as well as retellings of fiction and nonfiction text by each participant as well as reader interviews.</p> <p>The results demonstrated that processing was more deftly accomplished during fiction reading, that comprehension was greater after fiction reading and …
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Retellings and Semi-Structured Interviews for Assessing Reading Comprehension of Standardized Test Passages and of the Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress Passages as Compared to Scores on Multiple-Choice Test Items
The literature in reading comprehension points to a disparity between current knowledge about the reading process and current assessment practices. Prevalent theoretical views favor a constructivist cognitive framework in which text meanings are determined by a composite of reader-related factors …
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A collaborative approach for treating conversational narratives: An aphasia treatment case study
… of their tellings, and their evolution across retellings. Coding of each barrier game session involved a four-pass consensus process, transcribing and identifying full and kernel conversational narratives, their initiator, tellership, initiation context, audience involvement, linearity, and …
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Shadow of Death: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of the Floyd Collins Tragedy
… historical accuracy) vary, they are basically retellings of the same story—a story filled with drama, suspense, and heroics. Because of these characteristics, the rhetoric of the Floyd Collins ordeal lent itself to examination using Bormann's (1972) fantasy theme method. By using a fantasy …
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Aktualizace řeckých mýtů v současné anglosaské literatuře a jejich kritický ohlas
… ancient Greek myths, and how these modern retellings reflect the cultural and social values of today's world. The analysis centers on three novels - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, and Circe and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - which offer fresh, often feminist perspectives on …
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From Chapbooks to Plumb Cake: The History of Children's Literature
… of old chapbook stories, but nonetheless, his retellings of medieval legends were still constrained by the desire to morally guide children; and they never achieved quite the same flight of fancy as British children's literature.
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Deeper Than Roots
… what it is to move away. These essays aim to mix retellings of everyday events and relationships with deep personal turmoil and the growth that result from it.</p>
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Retells and Remakes: Understanding How Horror Urban Legends Change Over Time
… analyze the shifts that have occurred within the retellings of these dark tales, and through this analysis, light will be shed onto what truly affects the media's storytelling behavior. Building upon meme theory, this study will use narrative and historical context analyses to uncover the …
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Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children's Literature
… chapter discusses the way in which children's retellings of <em>Beowulf</em> have placed the poem into a less culturally-dependent, more universal setting as they have separated the tale from its linguistic and cultural heritage. Children's authors have gradually removed the poem's poetic and …
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Tour of my bedside cabinet
… story found in the book of Genesis. These retellings aim to illustrate the inconsistencies in the conception of the Christian god as all knowing, all powerful, and loving. Other poems in the collection are more personal, discussing the speaker’s experiences with Catholicism, as well as …
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Reshaping Memory: Counter-Narratives in Kindertransport Literature
… Eisinger. My focus is on the Kinder's numerous retellings of their experience across different genres. I demonstrate that by transposing their story from one genre to the next the Kinder's narratives make observable the constructive process of memory and its mediated character. I argue that by …
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The linkages across listening, speaking, reading, drawing and writing
… coherence and specificity present in the story retellings and picture stories. The results of the study indicated that no one particular language process was chosen exclusively to convey meaning in response to story. Some linkage patterns, described as simultaneous or sequential, did occur more …
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Picturebooks as Visual Literacy: The Influence of Illustrations on Second-Graders' Comprehension of Narrative Text
… of the interview. Quantitative results from the retellings and comprehension questions suggest an overall trend indicating that illustrations have a positive effect on second grader's comprehension. Qualitative data for individual participants from their retrospective think alouds confirm this …
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