"Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That": Genre as Counterscript and the Multiple Spaces of Dialogue

This article presents findings from a collaborative school-university project in which third-grade children in a California public school classroom created ongoing email dialogues with adult writers in the Midwest throughout a school year.  Although one of the adult writers focused on curricular topics, her two groups of epals established a counterscript through the genre of riddles.  This use of genre enabledthe "riddlers" in this project to effectively oppose the curricular discourse initiated by the adult writer.