Supporting recreational book reading in adolescents: What you can do
© 2016 Common Ground, Margaret Kristin Merga, All Rights Reserved. While the international conversation about literacy is heavily concerned with skill acquisition, particularly in the early years, insufficient attention is given to developing will, and hence fostering life-long reading. As regular r...
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| description | © 2016 Common Ground, Margaret Kristin Merga, All Rights Reserved. While the international conversation about literacy is heavily concerned with skill acquisition, particularly in the early years, insufficient attention is given to developing will, and hence fostering life-long reading. As regular recreational book reading offers a wide range of benefits, supporting this practice should be a key aim of educators, librarians, parents, and researchers. This paper highlights the range of established and emerging benefits of recreational book reading, subsequently outlining how we can support adolescent readers to read more books. It draws deeply from the available research, particularly findings from the West Australian Study in Adolescent Book Reading (WASABR), which has achieved wide attention both in Australia and internationally. It will also be contended that the current body of research indicates that book reading offers greater benefit than reading of other textual sources. Evidence-based recommendations for educators, librarians, and parents wishing to support recreational book reading are presented, with emerging areas of significance for future research also outlined. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-675822018-05-18T07:59:00Z Supporting recreational book reading in adolescents: What you can do Merga, Margaret © 2016 Common Ground, Margaret Kristin Merga, All Rights Reserved. While the international conversation about literacy is heavily concerned with skill acquisition, particularly in the early years, insufficient attention is given to developing will, and hence fostering life-long reading. As regular recreational book reading offers a wide range of benefits, supporting this practice should be a key aim of educators, librarians, parents, and researchers. This paper highlights the range of established and emerging benefits of recreational book reading, subsequently outlining how we can support adolescent readers to read more books. It draws deeply from the available research, particularly findings from the West Australian Study in Adolescent Book Reading (WASABR), which has achieved wide attention both in Australia and internationally. It will also be contended that the current body of research indicates that book reading offers greater benefit than reading of other textual sources. Evidence-based recommendations for educators, librarians, and parents wishing to support recreational book reading are presented, with emerging areas of significance for future research also outlined. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67582 Common Ground Publishing restricted |
| spellingShingle | Merga, Margaret Supporting recreational book reading in adolescents: What you can do |
| title | Supporting recreational book reading in adolescents: What you can do |
| title_full | Supporting recreational book reading in adolescents: What you can do |
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| title_short | Supporting recreational book reading in adolescents: What you can do |
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