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List of Tables | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Considering Gender and Literacy Research | |
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The Influence of Gender on Schooling | |
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Gender and Early Schooling | |
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Content Difference in Reading Choice | |
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Large Scale Surveys of Reading Interests | |
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Gender Differences in Writing | |
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Gender Differences in Academic Achievement | |
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Biological Explanations of Gender Difference | |
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Gender as Socially Constructed | |
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Gender Role as Social Display | |
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Gender Regime | |
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Psychoanalytical Theory, Freud and Gender | |
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Gender, Language and Subjectivity | |
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Gender and the Teaching of English | |
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The Teaching of Reading and Writing in School and Its Legacy | |
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The Importance of History | |
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Methods of Teaching Reading | |
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Methods of Teaching Writing | |
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The Relevance of a Historical Perspective on Early Reading and Writing to this Study | |
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English in the Secondary School: A Question of Personal Response? | |
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The Nature of Personal Response | |
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Summary | |
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The Research Evidence | |
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Papils' Choice of Narrative Pleasures | |
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A Questionnaire in Narrative Form | |
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Asking Questions | |
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Differences in Narrative Pleasure | |
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Identifying Shared Interests | |
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Choosing Non-fiction | |
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Identifying Light and Heavy Readers | |
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Boys' Disadvantage in the Reading Curriculum | |
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Reading Comics and Magazines | |
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Further Competition with Reading | |
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Tastes in Television Programmes | |
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Comparisons with other Related Studies | |
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Summary | |
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How Do They Read? | |
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Overview | |
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The Influence of the Home | |
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Facility in Learning to Read | |
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Who Provides Support for Learning? | |
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Who Reads Most in the Family? | |
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Sharing Books with Others | |
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Self-Assessment of Reading Ability | |
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Time Spent Reading | |
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Theoretical Perspectives Re-examined | |
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Summary | |
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Reading Beyond the Pleasure Principle | |
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Overview | |
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Reading at the Beginning of the Secondary School | |
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Reading and the English Curriculum | |
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Reading in Practice | |
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Reading Enables Children to Make Sense of the World | |
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Families Versus Adventures: A Question of Choice | |
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Reader as Hero and Heroine | |
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Reading as Individual Choice and Personal Pleasure | |
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Narrative Satisfaction and Its Sources | |
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Reading as the Enrichment of Language | |
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Summary | |
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Reading into Writing | |
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The Influence of Film on Narrative Understanding | |
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Writing Tasks in School | |
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Barthes' Method of Narrative Analysis | |
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Applying a Semic Analysis to Pupils' Stories | |
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Pupils' Choice of Genre for Writing Stories | |
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Pupils' Choice of Characters for Their Stories | |
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The Encoding of Actions | |
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Comparison of the Plotting Devices Used | |
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Analysis of Five Stories | |
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Story One: The Rainbow Man | |
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Story Two: The Time Warp | |
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Story Three: Brotherly Love | |
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Story Four: Me and My Street | |
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Story Five: Robocop 4 | |
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Using More Literary Genres for Writing | |
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Analysis and Recommendations | |
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Making Connections from Theory to Practice | |
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The Role of Narrative in the Teaching of Literacy | |
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The Influence of Visual Literacy on Narrative Preference | |
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Literacy and the New Technologies | |
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Boys' Disadvantage in the Literacy Curriculum | |
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The Nature of Gendered Difference and the Contribution of Feminist Research | |
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Masculinity and Narrative Choice | |
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The Teacher's Role | |
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Literature and Literacy | |
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Home Influence and the Modelling of Reading | |
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From Research to Practice: A Concluding Summary with Suggestions for the Organization of Work in the Classroom | |
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Redressing Imbalances | |
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Auditing Individual Pupil's Reading | |
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Improving Book Provision | |
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Working with Parents | |
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Promoting Enthusiasm for Books | |
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Shared Reading Activities | |
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Working with Non-fiction | |
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Working with Popular Culture | |
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Catering for Boys' Tastes | |
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Teachers as Readers--Matching Readers to Books | |
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Literacy in the Whole Curriculum | |
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Combining Fact and Fiction | |
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Managing Reading for Learning | |
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Providing for Technological Changes to Literacy | |
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Researching the Classroom | |
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The Education of New Teachers | |
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Summary | |
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Examples of Unstructured Stories of Reading Transcribed from Children's Work Collected in the Pilot Study | |
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Examples of Story Openings Collected in the Second Phase of the Study and Analysed in Chapter 6 | |
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Titles of Books Recorded in the Questionnaires as Well Liked | |
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References | |
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Index | |