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Van Oteghen, Sharon; Mahood, Ramona – Strategies, 1995
Since middle school students like to read about sports and physical activities, physical education teachers can tie their reading interests to class activities. The paper explains how to find out how students use their free time and what their interests and likes are. Suggestions for interdisciplinary activities are included. (SM)
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools

Poe, Elizabeth; And Others – ALAN Review, 1995
Presents a summary of research done in the field of young adult literature from 1967 to 1992. Summarizes research done in areas such as methodology, booklists, author studies, critical analysis, social issues, reader response, and reading advocacy. (HB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Educational Research, Educational Trends, English Instruction

Haynes, Carol; Richgels, Donald J. – Journal of Educational Research, 1992
Researchers compared fourth graders' literature preferences and examined categories of children's literature as preference indices. They investigated whether children preferred to read or view selections. Students expressed preferences on an annotated titles inventory. Content was a more powerful preference factor than traditional classifications…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Decision Making, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades

Walker, Barbara J. – Public Libraries, 1992
Suggests authors, titles, and resources in the area of Christian fiction to assist librarians in the selection of adult, young adult, and children's materials. A list of Christian fiction book publishers and journal sources that review these works is appended. (21 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Book Reviews, Childrens Literature

Arthur, Beth M.; Burch, Angela D. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1993
This collection of suggestions deals with motivating upper-elementary and junior-high age students to read. Teachers are urged to model enjoyment of reading, make available materials that are appealing to the unique interests of their students, and create a warm and caring classroom atmosphere. (JDD)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools

Yule, Valerie – Reading, 1992
Suggests that some Australian schools in the 1980s took up too enthusiastically what may be called the Effortless Theory of Learning to Read. Describes how Paired Reading can work and what can go wrong with such instruction. (RS)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Parent Participation

Burdick, Tracey – Emergency Librarian, 1998
Defines information aliteracy (ability to read without the desire) and proposes that desire be considered a component of information literacy. Experiences of a group of information aliterate students are examined; opportunity for pleasure through involvement is discussed; and suggestions for teachers and teacher-librarians for reducing the problem…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy, Information Seeking

Delin, Catherine R.; And Others – Australian Library Journal, 1995
Describes a questionnaire study of Australian undergraduates and a community sample that investigated the reading of books as a recreational activity and considered individual characteristics. Topics include the amount and nature of reading, attitudes toward reading, measures of social resources, scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Community Study, Correlation, Demography, Foreign Countries

Wilhelm, Jeff – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses text features that tended to engage boys, and describes their desire to use literacy to share and socialize. Finds that boys were more different than alike, and that very particular conditions in the social context were more important than preexisting interests. Offers brief descriptions of 11 books the author has found to be appealing…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Males
Birkerts, Sven – School Library Journal, 1999
Suggests that the real power of the childhood reading encounter is less in the specific elements of story or character and more in what is accomplished by the private interchange between child and book. Discusses the differences between reading and being read to and between reading and television watching. (AEF)
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Needs, Childrens Literature, Reader Text Relationship
Lenters, Kimberly – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2006
An important research paradigm applied to the study of adolescent resistance to reading--listening to student voice--has yielded rich information regarding adolescent literacy practices, adolescent agency, and adolescent identity as components of resistance to reading. Instructional perspectives of teachers and researchers also serve to shed light…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Interests, Reading Attitudes
Herald, Diana Tixier – 1995
Neither a bibliography nor a history of genres through historical sequences of listings by author, this book is a guide for those who help readers identify genre authors and titles of desired types in both libraries and bookstores. A secondary purpose of the book is as a text for library school students, aimed at familiarizing them with the common…
Descriptors: Adults, Authors, English Literature, Fantasy
Godina, Heriberto – 1994
A study investigated the effects of instruction in indigenous Mexican culture on Chicana and Chicano adolescents' reading preferences. Subjects, 81 Mexican-American students in a Southwestern middle school, were administered a culture interest inventory as a pre- and post-test for identifying reading preferences. Students participated in 4 days of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Indigenous Populations, Intermediate Grades
Cothern, Nancy B. – 1989
Based on the belief that the transition from learning to read to reading to learn can be facilitated by tailoring learning experiences to individual preferences, this book describes an affective-based 3-week summer reading program for students entering first through sixth grades. The first part of the book describes the philosophy of the program,…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation, Program Descriptions
Wurth, Shirley, Ed. – 1992
Intended to help young readers of high school age find the kinds of current books that make them want to read more, this book describes nearly 800 quality fiction and nonfiction titles published between 1988 and 1991 for young adults. The book's annotations are grouped by subject matter in 32 sections keyed to senior high students' interests and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Books