Joy Of Reading Research Articles

The Teacher and the Joy of Reading

Reading for the intellectual growth is as important as eating for the physical growth of a human being. The advantages of reading are narrated with numerous examples from great personalities. How reading helps to increase the value of education and why reading is all the more important for teachers are discussed.

Babar, Harry Potter et Cie. Livres d'enfants d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (review)

Reviewed by: Babar, Harry Potter et Cie. Livres d'enfants d'hier et d'aujourd'hui Elena Kilian Olivier Piffault (ED), Babar, Harry Potter et Cie. Livres d'enfants d'hier et d'aujourd'hui [Babar, Harry Potter and Co.; Yesterday's and today's children's books].Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France2008580 pp ISBN 9782717724226€48 France "Literature is a river," contends French children's book author Geneviève Brisac in her introductory remarks to this volume accompanying the exhibition, "Babar, Harry Potter and Co. Yesterday's and today's children's books," which traces the various currents and developments in children's literature. Inspired by the donation of the original illustrations of three "Babar" editions by the Brunhoff family in 2005, and the incorporation of the French National Centre for Children's Literature, La joie par les livres ("The joy of reading" founded in 1963), and its huge collection in January 2008, the Bibliothèque Nationale prepared and hosted this exhibition from October 2008 until April 2009. Intelligently using multimedia components and drawing on their own rich collections, loans from public institutions, such as the oldest French children's library Bibliothèque de l'heure joyeuse, and from private collections, the curators succeeded in creating a highly informative and entertaining experience for both young and old. The exhibition featured original editions from four centuries, manuscripts of children's book classics, numerous original illustrations, children's magazines, posters, and movies. The accompanying volume is more than a mere exhibition catalogue and well deserves to become a standard work on French children's literature. The thorough individual contributions not only examine the developments of French children's literature and its genres, ranging from ABC books and toy books to nonfiction literature and young adult novels. It also looks beyond the confines of traditional literary history to include children's literature and education, for example, or film adaptations of children's books. Finally, this sizable book – both in volume and scope – will enthrall readers thanks to its perspicuous structure, reader-friendly design, and generous amount of illustrative material. [End Page 55] Copyright © 2009 Bookbird, Inc.

Editors message

To take over the steering wheel from an experienced skipper is a challenge for the new one. What course should be taken in order to go towards old and new destinations? For me as new Chief Editor of our 86 year old journal, it is a pleasant first task to thank the old skipper, Prof. Per Olof Janson from Gothenburg, for his invaluable contributions during the many years he has guided Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica in its mission to provide good science to Nordic obstetricians and gynecologists and to the international scientific community, who consult and respect the journal. It is also time to praise the oarsmen, the Associate Editors, who keep up the forward drive of the boat. Competent back-up comes from the Board of the Nordic Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the member societies in the five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. I look forward to working with them, the Editorial Office in Gothenburg and with our international medical publisher, Taylor & Francis, in Stockholm and Oslo, particularly as we go to electronic submission and manuscript handling this summer. The journal stands on an old foundation of publishing a broad range of articles covering fundamental aspects of obstetrics and gynecology as well as subspeciality topics. I plan to extend on this and introduce new items to enhance readability of the journal. The issues will start by an Editors’ Message highlighting contributions and news of specific interest. More wide-ranging medical news will be added in due course, both from the Nordic and international scene. This will broaden the journals’ medical outlook and often take it beyond the traditional scope of obstetrics and gynecology to women's health in a general sense. The editorial team will strengthen its working ties for this purpose. Input from the readers and from leading centers and institutions in our countries will be necessary, as will the role of our international contributors. World-wide aspects of obstetrics and gynecology are vital to the success of Acta as an international publication. Changes come in gradually as Acta adjusts to sail with the winds and tides, as it indeed has done. In Acta clinical science, allied to basic research, should blend in with reviews and commentaries which the Editorial Board solicits from those known to contribute from a basis of authority, experience and scientific prowess. Basic research articles must have a clinical bearing. To the point writing should be our hallmark as we move forward in a faster and changing world. Lastly it is of vital importance that Nordic researchers choose Acta as their prime target for publication to a greater extent than hitherto. We strive to raise the impact factor in order to succeed among the sister journals. It is understandable when authors submit some prime work to broad-based journals such as Lancet, BMJ, JAMA or New England Journal of Medicine, which have a world-wide impact. Any author will consider it a life-time achievement to publish there. However, among clinical sciences journals in obstetrics and gynecology Acta should not be a lesser choice for Nordic and international contributors than the British or American journals. In an electronic google-world of large publication databases and alert-e.mails reading becomes universal and less dependent on specific journals. Still it is good to have at least one journal to grasp on a quiet evening or good afternoon at home or during work, feel the pages glide through your hands as you absorb matters that you want to be acquainted with, for your own sake and that of your patients. That is the joy of reading which few of us really want to exchange for the computer screen. In the Nordic countries this journal should be Acta and if we please our international readership at the same time, it adds value to the up-keep of frontline science, news and debate to which we contribute.

Graphic Books for Diverse Needs: Engaging Reluctant and Curious Readers

Involving today's adolescent in the joys of reading is a challenge in a hyper-mediated, fast paced world of informa­ tion. Just getting a teen to stop racing from activity to activ­ ity for a few minutes of quiet reading can be difficult . Adolescents are constantly occupied by the mall, movies, jobs, and their cell phones. One genre that is gaining academic respectability can help engage adolescents in reading: the graphic novel. The graphic novel, basically a comic in short book length, appeals to diverse readers who have come to expect visuals in the texts they encounter in their world. Graphic novels can offer well written and exciting stories, unusual information and ideas, new points of view, and stimu­ Librarians/media specialists have been especially enthusi­ astic about graphic novels. See, for example, articles by Stephen Weiner (2002), Michael Lavin (1998), and Lora Bruggeman (1997) in various library journals, advising on the emergence of graphic novels for library collections. Other scholars explore graphic novels as artifacts of popular cul­ ture. Ultimately, both the written text and graphics of good graphic novels are worthy of reading and study, and students are drawn to them. The graphic novel is short, has interesting pictures (some in color and some not), usually offers dialogue and action with little narration or description, and comes in paperback

Questions Often Asked About Promoting Lifetime Literacy Efforts

Supporting lifetime literacy efforts is a "big-picture" perspective that not only helps children become proficient readers, but also nurtures their love of literacy. This instructional direction requires a strong commitment from teachers and administrators. This article outlines how educators can understand the importance of lifetime literacy efforts, provide appropriate resources for encouraging the love of reading, support strategies that motivate children to read for pleasure, promote the joy of reading across the curriculum, provide a balanced curriculum representing both lifetime literacy and skills instruction, foster lifelong literacy in students who struggle with literacy, and demonstrate awareness of obstacles to lifetime literacy efforts. Responding positively to these and other factors increases the chances that future generations of literacy learners will be able to read effectively and, as important, will engage in literacy as a lifelong activity.

Literary criticism and the pursuit of character.

Kathryn Montgomery and I invited Wayne Booth to give the plenary address at the Society for Health and Human Values in the hope that our colleague philosophers, historians, and lawyers would hear--from the most authoritative source possible--that understanding how stories work is central to the work we do. Booth's lecture, reproduced exactly here, was a turning point for the field. For the first time, bioethicists without literary training could grasp with great immediacy and pleasure the point of studying literature. This lecture was a beginning of a generative interest within bioethics in such technical literary interests as point of view and reader-response criticism. By having reached our colleagues with such clarity and élan, Professor Booth opened an era in bioethics attuned to narrative theory, literary texts, and the joys of reading.

Young Adult Literature: An Entrée into the Joys of Reading

Notes how adolescents through young adult literature begin to discover the meaning behind the words and to explore their own emotions. Describes the use of small groups and an introduction of the concept of a literacy community. Discusses a whole-class reading and response to S.E. Hinton’s novel “The Outsiders.”

A Librarian's Thoughts on Reading

SUMMARY Being a reader led me to becoming a librarian. As a librarian I've learned that reading is a very individual pursuit and it's not easy to connect books and readers. I've had to teach myself readers' advisory to find the best ways to connect books to readers. Sponsoring book groups at the library is one of my more successful attempts at sharing the joys of reading. Book groups provide information, fun and a sense of community. Libraries should sponsor as many book groups as possible to spread the fun of reading and the communal aspect of reading in relation to the isolation of computer information.

Appearing Acts: Creating Readers in a High School English Class

Asking how she, as a teacher, can motivate students to discover the joy of reading, Joan Kernan Cone explores students' self-perceptions as "readers" and "non-readers." By engaging her students in this question and through her willingness to respond to their ideas Cone experiments with methods to cultivate "readers" — those who read on their own for pleasure and knowledge. Through the use of student journals, reading materials matching their interest and cultural backgrounds, and group discussion, she inspires a passion for reading. As a result of her in-class research and collaborative reflection with her students, Cone advocates creating a "community of readers" in which students can choose books, read them, talk about them, and encourage each others to read.

Reading for Elderly People

For many of us, life without books is as appalling a prospect as my television showing only endless snooker competitions. Despite this and despite the great efforts made by many staff to make life on long-stay wards bearable for the residents, the joy of reading is one which is denied to so many former avid readers.

The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader: On the Uses of "Serious" Fiction

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader: On the Uses of "Serious" FictionJanice RadwayJanice Radway Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 14, Number 3Spring, 1988The Sociology of Literature Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/448454 Views: 15Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1988 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Victoria Kingham The Excluded Middle: Cultural Polemics and Magazines in America, 1915–1933, (Jan 2012): 115–129.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354647_8Andrew P. Carlin The Corpus Status of Literature in Teaching Sociology: Novels as “Sociological Reconstruction”, The American Sociologist 41, no.33 (May 2010): 211–231.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-010-9096-8Larry Isaac Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel, American Sociological Review 74, no.66 (Dec 2009): 938–965.https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240907400605Elisabeth Klaus Janice Radway: „Frauengenres“ und die alltägliche Produktion von Gender, (Jan 2009): 290–303.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91839-6_24Denel Rehberg Sedo RICHARD & JUDY'S BOOK CLUB AND ‘CANADA READS’: Readers, books and cultural programming in a digital era1, Information, Communication & Society 11, no.22 (Mar 2008): 188–206.https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180801934487Linsey Howie Ritualising in Book Clubs: Implications for Evolving Occupational Identities, Journal of Occupational Science 10, no.33 (Nov 2003): 130–139.https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2003.9686520David E. Sutton Is Anybody Out There ?, Critique of Anthropology 11, no.11 (Jul 2016): 91–104.https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X9101100105 The Dialectics of Our America, (Jan 1991): 3–22.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-001 “Squeezed by the Banana Company”, (Jan 1991): 23–48.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-002 Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique, (Jan 1991): 49–84.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-003 The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina, (Jan 1991): 87–104.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-004 The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God, (Jan 1991): 105–120.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-005 The School of Caliban, (Jan 1991): 123–148.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-006 Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, and the Politics of the Possible, (Jan 1991): 149–153.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-007 Notes, (Jan 1991): 155–179.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-008 References, (Jan 1991): 181–195.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-009Elizabeth Long Cultural studies, Critical Studies in Mass Communication 6, no.44 (Dec 1989): 427–435.https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038909366768