Revisiting Rosenblatt's Aesthetic Response through the Arrival

摘要: Although numerous scholars and teachers have embraced Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading, some misinterpreted oversimplified her ideas about aesthetic reading personal response. As well as revisiting other scholars' interpretation extension response to literature, this article features a nine-year-old student's written responses The Arrival (Tan, 2006). work was collected during classroom-based study that explored developing Grade 4 students' visual meaning-making skills competencies by focusing on selection elements art design in picturebooks, graphic novels magazines. Specifically, the analysis text-based writing reveals how were indeed responses, instruction can contribute texts. concludes with consideration pedagogical issues associated teaching classrooms.