Looking Ahead with Hope: Reviving the Reading Maturity Construct as Social Science for Adolescent and Adult Readers

Autor/in	Thomas, Matt
Titel	Looking Ahead with Hope: Reviving the Reading Maturity Construct as Social Science for Adolescent and Adult Readers
Quelle	In: Reading Horizons, 52 (2013) 2, S.142-162, Artikel 4 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-0502
Schlagwörter	Adults; Adolescents; Reading Habits; Reading Interests; Recreational Reading; Reading Instruction; Social Sciences; Reading Achievement; Reading Skills; Reading Attitudes; Literacy; Literacy Education; Content Area Reading; Surveys; Reading Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Reading habit; Lesegewohnheit; Leseinteresse; Häusliche Lektüre; Leseunterricht; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Leseleistung; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Reading behavior; Rading behaviour; Leseverhalten; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Sinnerfassendes Lesen; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz
Abstract	"Reading maturity" is a construct that looks broadly at reading development encompassing not only basic reading skills but reading habits, attitudes, and dispositions. It has a rich history and this article calls for a need to make reading maturity a necessary part of the literacy curriculum. It offers a working description and reviews past history of the construct, discusses why reading maturity is important, and provides ideas about monitoring progress toward reading maturity. This article asserts that the reading field has developed a solid understanding of how students acquire basic reading skill and content area literacy abilities. However, a compelling and unified larger purpose for reading education seems absent, particularly for adolescent and adult readers. This article suggests that renewed attention to reading maturity could help address this. It contends that attention to reading maturity should involve more than general notions of becoming "well-read." Instead, it should include a balanced social-science approach to intentionally and systematically monitoring student progress toward reading maturity. Suggestions are offered to help begin this process including free online access to a reading maturity assessment and planning instrument called "The Reading Maturity Survey" (Thomas, 2001). (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01