SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE

Volume 7, Number 1, 2001, 72-81.

Theme: Information Literacy

The Voluntary Reading Interests of Jamaican Sixth Graders [PDF file]
Cherrell Shelley-Robinson
A nation-wide survey of the voluntary reading interests and habits of Jamaican children was undertaken to discover the specific reading interests of sixth graders, relative to the known reading interests of their peers in North America and the United Kingdom. A random sample of 418 sixth graders attending public schools was selected and stratified according to gender and geography. Overall, the children showed a wide range of reading interests in both fiction and non-fiction categories. Gender played a large role in book choices, but the Jamaican boys defied the norm and gave a high ranking to Love Stories. Geography, although to a lesser degree, also played a role in the children's book choices.

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