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MaryGabrielle Prezioso – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reading engagement is an essential component of children's reading achievement. This three-chapter dissertation considers a new approach to conceptualizing reading engagement through the lens of children's immersion, or absorption, in a text. Chapter 1 examines the theoretical underpinnings of story world absorption, sometimes known as…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Reader Text Relationship, Reader Response, Story Reading
Cassie D. Schmitt-Matzen – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Research in the field of reading has demonstrated the benefits of reading, including increased vocabulary (Anderson et al., 1986; Day et al., 1991) and comprehension (Anderson et al., 1986; Duncan et al., 2016), improved academic skills (Chen et al., 2017; Whitten et al., 2016), enhanced relaxation and pleasure (Gerlich et al., 2012; Kaiser &…
Descriptors: Fiction, Reading, Adolescents, Adults
Danielle Marie King-Watkins – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research was a 12-week-long study of six participants attending the same alternative high school in a suburban district in the northeast of the United States. Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory and interpretative qualitative methodology were used to examine participants' reactions to reading self-selected young adult (YA) literature during…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High School Students, Reading Materials, Reader Text Relationship
De Piero, Zack Kramer – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined how graduate students in humanities disciplines guide students' reading during their work as teaching assistants (TAs) in first-year (FYC) composition courses. Situated within an independent writing program, the "genre studies" approach to this FYC course is informed by the threshold concepts of the composition…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Reading Motivation
Suico, Theresa Go – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Young adult literature has been a subject of contention for educators, adolescent psychologists, and critics for decades. Although some commentators maintain that young adult literature can be educationally and developmentally beneficial for adolescent readers, others argue that it often contains negative and potentially harmful messages that…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Females, Adolescent Literature, Femininity
Wester, Aaron Micah – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to evaluate and determine if significant associations and linear correlations exist between reader socio-demographics, levels of trust and affinity in online citizen writer news story article content, brand loyalty, and acuity in newspaper organizations transitioning from print to online in a…
Descriptors: Journalism, News Writing, Newspapers, Internet
Pfenninger, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores the social construction of gender perceptions among U.S and U.K. fifth grade students engaged in book club. Using a reader response framework, this study endeavors to discover how meaning is negotiated through print and film literacy, specifically related to gender. By using four Newbery and other award winning pieces of…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Nonprint Media, Sexual Identity, Grade 5
Klasek, Catherine Huey – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This paper addresses my experience with a group of 11th grade students and their reading of The Grapes of Wrath (1939, 2002) by John Steinbeck. I questioned how the application of visual arts integration strategies, specifically the use of spontaneously created paintings, might influence the reader responses of my high school junior-level…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Visual Arts, Reader Response, Cognitive Processes
Thomas, Lisa Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Our society is increasingly bombarded with visual imagery; therefore, it is important for educators to be knowledgeable about the elements of art and to use our knowledge to help students deepen their reading understanding. Arizpe & Styles (2003) noted that students must be prepared to work with imagery in the future at high levels of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Picture Books, Reading, Reader Response
Manak, Jennifer Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Teachers frequently read aloud as a part of writing instruction so that children's book authors can serve as mentors for students' writing. Despite extensive anecdotal reporting of the significance of reading aloud children's literature within writing workshop, the intertextual connections students construct between interactive read alouds and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Childrens Literature, Mentors, Reading Aloud to Others
Sciurba, Katie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The discourse on multicultural literature has focused on providing children of color opportunities to "see themselves" in the texts they read. Since the 1920s, advocates like W.E.B. DuBois have stressed that "visibility" in literature fosters positive psychological development among underrepresented groups of children, in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Civil Rights, Males, Minority Group Students
Walker, Valerie Struthers – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation draws on textual reader response theory and humanities-based Disability Studies theories to explores the ways in which preservice teachers participating in a course called "Issues of Diversity in Children's and Adolescent Literature" and their instructor, who is also the researcher, made sense of representations of disability in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Adolescent Literature, Preservice Teachers, Group Discussion