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Direct linkJeffrey D. Wilhelm; Michael W. Smith – English Journal, 2016
The authors share findings from a recent study of teens who freely select to read texts typically marginalized by schools (dystopia, vampire, romance, horror, fantasy), revealing the distinct functional and psychological benefits of pleasure reading. The students who participated in the study that the authors report on were eighth graders who…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading
Brooks, Wanda; McNair, Jonda C. – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This article provides a review of research on African American children's literature by synthesizing the growing body of textual and reader response research conducted across the past several decades. The literature presented in this article cuts across the disciplines of education as well as English and library science. Using the selective…
Descriptors: African American Children, Childrens Literature, Cultural Pluralism, Reading
Sipe, Lawrence R.; Brightman, Anne E. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2009
This article reports on a study of the responses of a second-grade class to the page breaks in contemporary picturebooks. In a picturebook, the text and accompanying illustrations are divided into a series of facing pages called openings, and the divisions between the openings are called page breaks or turns. Unlike a novel, in which the page…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Inferences, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Parsons, Linda T. – Language Arts, 2006
This study involved fourth grade children as co-researchers of their engaged, aesthetic reading experience. As members of the "Readers as Researchers Club," they documented their engagement with text--how they create, enter, and sustain the story world. The children, who self-identified as avid readers, explored the activities central to their…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Individualized Reading
Aukerman, Maren S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
This study offers an alternative to traditional notions of scaffolding for reading comprehension by tracing the evolution of a fifth-grade small group literature conversation in which the teacher sought to displace himself as "primary knower" (Berry, 1981) in the conversation. The study examines how the teacher shared evaluation with his…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2006
Close to 1,100 people attended the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami, Florida from November 30-December 3, 2005. A record number of proposals were submitted this year (548), with 392 papers, symposia, and round tables accepted. This year's conference theme was inclusiveness and synthesis…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Reading Research, Synthesis
