Children's Interests in Reading: Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Jordan, Arthur M.

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ISBN 10 : 0483799106 ISBN 13 : 9780483799103

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Children's Interests in Reading: Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faty of Philosophy, Columbia University

The third and fourth grades are omitted for the purposes of this study, which extends from the fifth grade through the high school. One thousand five hundred returns were used from North Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs, all cities of Colorado, since there were complete reports from these towns. According to the author war stories seem popular with third grade boys, and that liking remains well marked through the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Stories of adventure are popular with boys through the heroic period, reaching their maximum in the eighth and ninth grades. The liking for biography and travel or ex ploration grows gradually to a climax in the ninth grade and remains well up throughout the course. The tender sentiment has little charm for the average grade boy, and only in the high school course does he acknowledge any considerable use of love stories. In the sixth grade he is fond of detective stories but they lose their charm for him as he grows older.

Stories of adventure are popular with the girls too in the sixth grade and stories of travel are always enjoyed. The girl likes biography, but in the high school, true to her sex, she prefers stories of great women rather than those of great men. Pity it is that the biographies of so few of the world's many great women are written. The taste for love stories increases steadily to the end of the high school course. Beyond that we have no records.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0483799106
• ISBN 13: 9780483799103
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
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