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Download full textCarter, Sylvia – 1976
This study was prompted by the lack of consistency in defining the interests, both general and in the area of reading, of children in the primary grades. Analysis of more than 15 introductory texts used to teach reading indicated that interest measurement is based on certain unquestioned theoretical assumptions. Students in 27 first- through…
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Educational Research
