I. Transactional Theory of Literature
1. Transactional Theory of Literature / Nicholas J. Karolides
2. Connecting Students and Literature: What Do Teachers Do and Why Do They Do It? / Robert C. Small
3. "The Guy Who Wrote This Poem Seems to Have the Same Feelings as You Have": Reader-Response Methodology / Leila Christenbury
4. Writing From, of, and About Literature / Robert E. Probst
II. Initiating Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes
5. Reader Response at the Movies / Joy Gould Boyum
6. Mending Walls: Using a Reader-Response Approach to Teach Poetry / Ron Luce
7. Two Reader-Response Classrooms: Using Prereading Activity and Readers Theatre Approaches / Patricia P. Kelly
8. "I Understood the Grief": Theory-Based Introduction to Ordinary People / Deborah Appleman
III. Developing Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes
9. Teaching Eudora Welty's "Petrified Man": Expanding Preliminary Insights / Marshall Toman
10. Reader Response to Drama: Prospecting for Human Understandings and Connections / Linda Varvel
11. Hill Climbing With Thoreau: Creating Meaningful Carryover / Mary Jo Schaars
12. Intensifying Transactions Through Multiple Text Exploration: A Literature Circle Approach to Novels Set in the United States During World War II / Elizabeth A. Poe
13. Role-Playing Experiences: Expanding Readers' Responses to Literature / Nicholas J. Karolides
14. Writing-to-Learn/Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Antigone / Duane H. Roen
IV. Exploring Differences: Gender, Race and Culture
15. Trifles as Treason: Coming to Consciousness as a Gendered Reader / Laura Quinn
16. Reading and Teaching From the Outside: Responding to Native American Literature / David W. Furniss
17. Cultivating Understandings Through Reader Response: Dawn's Responses to The Things They Carried and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places / Arlette Ingram Willis
18. Teacher Learning in Response to Autobiographical Literature / Jocelyn Glazier, Mary McVee and Susan Wallace-Cowell / [et al.]
19. Calypso, Jazz, Reggae, Salsa: Literature, Response, and the African Diaspora / Linda A. Spears-Bunton
20. Reader Responses to Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz": Exploring Different Perspectives / Jean E. Brown and Louise Garcia Harrison.
