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Peer reviewedHarkrader, Mary Ann; Moore, Richard – Reading Research and Instruction, 1997
Uses a "fictitious-annotated-titles" survey to determine reading preferences of fourth-grade girls and boys. Finds that both boys and girls prefer fiction over non-fiction; girls preferred fiction more strongly than boys; and boys preferred male main characters more strongly than the girls, and girls preferred female main characters more…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fiction, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
