A Response-Based Approach

I really appreciated the results of this research because it confirmed the approach I have always taken to teaching. Information means nothing if a student cannot internalize it and the only the way that will happen is if they can make it their own, so giving them space to talk about their thoughts and understandings of a text seems logical.

"The whole informs the parts as well as the parts building toward the whole." This quote summarizes, in my opinion, the whole of the research. The teaching options that are offered at the end of the article are offered in hopes that teachers are able to show their students that their "parts" matter in the understanding of the whole, which refines their parts.

I also like the use of horizon in terms of understanding literature. You never reach the horizon, you only find a new horizon.