Deck 2: Literature in the Lives of Young Readers

Question 1

Sometimes, when the ideology of a text is markedly different from that of a reader, the reader reacts to the text with:

A) surprise.
B) thoughtfulness.
C) resistance.
D) angry vehemence.

Answer 1

resistance.

Question 2

Who claimed that simply encouraging young readers to engage with a text through identification, or "being inhaled," is actually dangerous, as then they never learn to recognize the ideologies in a text, especially those that are implicit.

A) Louise Rosenblatt
B) John Stephens
C) David Lewis
D) Laura Apol

Answer 2

John Stephens

Question 3

Challenges to your students' right to read are called:

A) restraint.
B) censorship.
C) selectiveness.
D) applied caution.

Answer 3

censorship.

Question 4

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) differentiates between selection and censorship according to this many dimensions:

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five

Question 5

One of the goals of a response-centered curriculum is to create:

A) lifelong readers.
B) diversity.
C) an environment of multiculturalism.
D) a sense of community.

Question 6

Selection is:

A) affirmative.
B) negative.
C) censorship.
D) a matter of taste.

Question 7

Censorship looks at specific aspects and parts of a work in:

A) a religious framework.
B) relation to each other.
C) relation to the whole.
D) isolation.

Question 8

Limiting access to ideas and information is called:

A) caution.
B) selection.
C) censorship.
D) parenting rights.

Question 9

School media specialists or principals need to have a standard process to follow if a book is:

A) censored.
B) challenged.
C) selected.
D) isolated.

Question 10

______ is credited with identifying the aesthetic and efferent stances toward reading.

A) Galda
B) Benton
C) Rosenblatt
D) Fish

Question 11

A transactional view of reading assumes that all meaning resides in the text.

Question 12

The stance that a reader takes is determined by the text and not by the reader.

Question 13

Who readers are and what they have experienced influence their responses to the books they read.

Question 14

Past experience with books influences how readers read and respond.

Question 15

If children never see themselves in books, they receive the subtle message that they are not important enough to appear in books and that books are not for them.

Question 16

A book's ideologies influence a reader's response.

Question 17

Context is the most influential factor in shaping a reader's response.

Question 18

The First Amendment guarantees free speech.

Question 19

Suppressing reading material is selection.

Question 20

Most professional organizations believe that parents have the right to decide what their own children read but not the right to tell other people's children what they should read.

Question 21

From the perspective of transactional theory, describe how meaning is made when reading.

Question 22

Compare and contrast an efferent stance and an aesthetic stance in reading.

Question 23

According to Sipe, what kinds of ways do young readers respond to picturebooks?

Question 24

How does ideology shape a text, and a reader's response to a text?

Question 25

What programs or activities would you create to encourage young readers to engage deeply with books?

Question 26

Explain (and provide personal examples) about how reading can be transformational.

Question 27

Describe how literature can be both a mirror and a window for readers. Provide examples from your own life, and explain why it is important that readers have both types of experiences.

Question 28

Based on the reading, develop a response to the following statement: Children should not read books that deal with difficult issues.