Teaching With Interactive Fiction

A Web Page for Educators and Other Readers

Computer-based interactive fiction offers teachers and students fresh and exciting ways to improve their thinking and reading. I hope that this page will encourage teachers and kids to use this remarkable, but largely ignored, resource. Please feel free to contact me, if I can be of any further help.

At this site, you'll find:

	A brief introduction to interactive fiction
	Suggestions on using interactive fiction to teach for clearer, more independent thinking
	Ways to help students recognize problems through interactive fiction
	Ways to help students state problems more effectively through interactive fiction
	Other important thinking skills that interactive fiction requires
	Using interactive fiction to manage useful pauses in the reading process
	How interactive fiction helps students to monitor and evaluate their reading
	Recommended works of interactive fiction, especially for middle school students
	The top fifty works of interactive fiction, for use with high school and middle school students
	Arthur, with maps and more--highly recommended for students
	The Firebird, with walkthru--also highly recommended
	Winter Wonderland--another excellent story for kids
	Photopia, an especially fine challenge for language arts classes.
	"The Enterprise Incidents," a story about middle school
	Obtaining Interactive Fiction
	Ways to communicate better with interactive fiction
	Ways to avoid getting stuck in interactive fiction
	Suggestions on managing IF in a one-computer classroom
	Writing IF
	A field study suggesting that IF really works
	One last reason to try IF in your classroom
	Some Print References on Teaching With Interactive Fiction

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