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What we know about nonfiction and young adult readers and what we need to do about it
Nonfiction for young adults is enjoying a rebirth of interest among publishers, librarians, and teachers with the emergence of an approach that uses...
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Figures of Exchange: A Poststructuralist Semiotics of Reading
In the foregoing chapters I have reviewed recent practices of reading based on subjective and sociocultural negotiation (reader-response), rhetorical...
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Exciting nonfiction
Nonfiction for children and young adults long suffered from a reputation for dullness in both content and presentation. In recent years, however, the...
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Trade books and the social studies curriculum
Historical fiction, fiction about contemporary people of other cultures, and nonfiction trade books can increase children's interest in social...
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The Aligned Text: Discourse Types and Functional Modes
A question which seldom, if ever, receives critical comment, is our capacity to categorize texts, and I am thinking here of all kinds of text, not...
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Fact and Fiction in the Realistic Novel
It has for some time been standard critical wisdom that traditional realism is best seen as a historically determined and by now outdated model of...
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The impact of basal readers on the curriculum
Despite frequent criticisms of basal readers, most teachers use them as a basic instructional tool or as a springboard for other reading activities....
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Visual Displays in Basal Readers and Social Studies Textbooks
The primary and immediate purpose of the work reported in this chapter is to validate a system for analyzing the form, function, and utility of...
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The book as mass commodity: The audience perspective
An examination of the issue of literary massification and degradation of taste in the light of how locally organized reading groups select and...
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Diagnosing Personality States
Although much has been written about specific psychological states such as anxiety, anger, and sex, Thorne (1967a, 1970) has presented the only...