Reading About Readers: A Content Analysis of the Reading Behaviors Modeled by Characters in Popular Children's Fiction
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- February 28, 2019
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Metallo, Susan M.
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- This study examines the portrayal of reading in popular children's fiction. Content analysis was used to determine to what extent characters in a sample of fifteen high-circulating novels for middle grade readers displayed the following positive reading behaviors: reading continuous texts, reading voluntarily, reading for recreation or general interest, sharing reading experiences, and experiencing reading as pleasurable. The study also examined whether male and female readers were equally represented with regard to these positive behaviors. Both male and female readers were represented in the sample texts and exhibited roughly equivalent positive reading behaviors. Models of recreational reading were limited, and texts varied in the positivity or negativity of their depictions of reading, though free voluntary reading was portrayed positively fairly consistently. The study includes an assessment of which texts provide the most positive male and female reading models overall.
- Date of publication
- April 2012
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Sturm, Brian
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Extent
- 59 p.
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- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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