Reading, Readin', and Skimming: Preadolescent Girls Navigate the Sociocultural Landscapes of Books and Reading

Autor/in	Graff, Jennifer M.
Titel	Reading, Readin', and Skimming: Preadolescent Girls Navigate the Sociocultural Landscapes of Books and Reading
Quelle	In: Language Arts, 87 (2010) 3, S.177-187 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-9170
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Literature; Females; Preadolescents; Classification; Reader Text Relationship; Peer Groups; Student Attitudes; Libraries; Peer Acceptance; Grade 4; Grade 5; Interviews; Discourse Analysis; Reading Instruction; Elementary Reading Attitude Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Weibliches Geschlecht; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Schülerverhalten; Library; Bibliothek; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Diskursanalyse; Leseunterricht
Abstract	This article shares the voices of preadolescent girls as they participated in an eight-month book selection study which enabled them to be active agents in their book and reading experiences. The girls, school-identified as struggling readers and self-identified as resistant readers, complicate current notions of reading, as influenced by education policy, and trouble the potential tendencies of educators to equate books with reading. For these girls, books and reading converged and diverged within various sociocultural spheres and ultimately served as conduits for academic success and social power as well as literary entryways into particular peer communities. The girls' words and actions reveal the social and economic currency of particular books within larger communities and remind educators that the social stories may be more valuable or more worthy of "reading" than the literal story within the bounded pages of books. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10