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Factors That Influence Children's Free Choices of Topics for Creative Writing.
Jobe, Ronald Albert – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine the scores of children's ideas for creative writing when given freedom of choice of topic, and to determine if those children who expressed ideas reportedly original to them were more or less creative than the others. The subjects, selected from grades 2, 4, and 6, were a stratified random sample…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Creativity Research
Reading Interests of Children in Grades Four through Eight.
Conway, Hannah Elizabeth Miller – 1975
This study surveyed children's expressed reading interests and attempted to determine whether these were related to grade level, sex, race, and socioeconomic level. A total of 784 children in grades four through eight in four elementary schools of Fairfield, Alabama, answered a questionnaire composed of 120 annotated fictitious titles representing…
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations
Current Expressed Reading Interests of Young Children.
Kirsch, Dorothy Italie – 1973
The purposes of this study were to survey expressed reading interests of first and second grade children from different geographic areas of the United States, with differing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds; to compare expressed reading interests of children in grades one and two in an attempt to determine if interests change; and to…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Grade 2
In-Depth Book Discussions of Selected Sixth Graders: Response to Literature.
Wilson, Roy Russel, Jr. – 1975
The four major purposes of this study were: to examine and describe the in-depth discussions by selected sixth graders of specific books in an attempt to characterize the nature of the responses; to compare four strategies which were employed for initiating the different discussions; to discover the range of personal involvement which sixth…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Doctoral Dissertations
The Effect of Listening to Excerpts from Children's Stories About Mexican-Americans on the Self-Concepts and Attitudes of Sixth-Grade Children.
Koeller, Shirley Ann Lipian – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of listening to excerpts from children's stories about Mexican-Americans on children's attitudes toward Mexican-Americans, self-concepts, and interests. The sample consisted of 220 sixth-graders. Once weekly for six weeks, experimental groups heard excerpts about Mexican-Americans, while…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations
The Relationship of Readability, Content, Illustrations, and Other Format Elements to the Library Book Preferences of Second Grade Children.
Grover, Robert John – 1976
In order to determine the variables which influence children's choice of books, 52 second-grade students from one elementary school were selected and interviewed. Twenty books, which circulated most frequently among second-grade children, were designated "high preference"; another 20, randomly selected from 634 books which were borrowed only once,…
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations