The purpose of this Bachelor thesis is to examine how children describe their experiences of their own reading, with focus on different aspects of reading: Choice of reading, reading environment, response to reading and book talk. Our aim is also to examine which approaches to reading their stories illustrate. The research is founded on semi-structured interviews with six children aged 10, in connection with book talks. For analysis we used Åse Hedemark’s study Barn berättar : En studie av 10-årningars syn på läsning och bibliotek as well as Aidan Chambers’ theories concerning reading and reading environment. Our results show that these children had very positive feelings about the aspects of reading. Several of them expressed that reading was at its best when they felt they forgot about time and space. The outer reading environment was also found to have an impact on these children's reading experiences. Several of them created their own reading places, which were characterized by being perceived as cozy and hidden away from the rest of the world. Despite that, there were also some negative stories, especially concerning reading they were obliged to do by their teachers. A neutral attitude to reading was also shown, in how the children might choose literature based on their friends’ preferences. By talking about their reading with each other, they turned their solitary reading into a social activity. / Program: Bibliotekarie

Children's language development is highly connected to the success of every school. Especially when it comes to the children learning reading and writing skills, regardless of what method the schools use in order to achieve this. An early intervention can facilitate the learning of reading comprehension. Reading aloud and playing with the language learning is the greatest gift we can give our children and students. Children learn how to use a book by turning the pages and see how the words and texts are structured. Together you create a moment of closeness and discover how you can share your thoughts and experiences using pictures and words in the book. The purpose of this study is to gain insight and understanding into how teachers motivates and leads the children towards the discovering their own joy of reading. These also include those children that would rather play than sitting still listening to children's literature. The survey is a series of interviews with six class teachers from pre-schools in a suburb south of Stockholm. The result shows that teachers believe that reading aloud and having follow up book talks are an important part of capturing children’s interest for reading, especially children who do not have their own motivation to be involved in learning to enjoy books. Reading aloud using intonation and different voices stimulates children's curiosity, and in turn this results in children themselves getting involved in the narration.

In this study the book talk is examined as a communicative act with a purpose to convince according to an under-lying intention to promote reading. I follow the book talk’s way from an idea of the book talker (and the library) to the reception of the audience, with the aim to understand how to talk about books in an engaging manner. More specifically, the rhetorical situation and the purpose of a book talk, the performance and the means to arouse and retain interest in the book talk as a speech and in the books themselves are examined and the impact of the book talk on the audience.The empirical material consists of observations of two different book talks (both directed to children) and interviews with the two different book talking librarians and a few of the children from the audiences to both book talks. The theoretical framework consists of rhetorical theories from both antique and modern times and I perform a rhetorical analysis of both book talks. As a complement to the rhetorical theories I use concepts from Readers’ Advisory such as ”book appeal” and ”reading appeal” to talk about what in the books themselves and in reading as an activity can be used as an argument.The results of the study show that in principle all children wanted to read one or more of the books presented in the book talk. To achieve this interest from the children the librarians know how to use the stories in the books and to draw on the arguments from the books themselves. This involves different appeal-elements from the books as plot summary, characters, genre, style and atmosphere. The book talking librarians also used different rhetorical techniques including evidentia, identification, pathos and ethos. Ethos especially in the form of the benevolence or goodwill the book talker shows the audience by including them in the book talk and trusting them to share what they think about the books. This study is a two years master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies.

Följande uppsats är en systematisk litteraturstudie vars syfte är att ge en bild av arbete med litteratursamtal i grundskolan. Studien söker svar på litteratursamtalens funktion och effekter, samt hur uppgifter kan utformas kring samtalen. Genom systematiska sökningar i relevanta databaser har fem studier om litteratursamtal undersökts. Resultatet ger exempel på olika tillvägagångssätt för samtalen gällande genomförande och val av metoder, men också hur uppgifter i samband med samtalen kan utformas. Litteratursamtal visar sig också ha effekter på elevers lärande och utveckling gällande läsförståelse, nya perspektiv och bredare synsätt.Dessutom presenteras ett antal svårigheter med denna typ av samtal. Dessa svårigheter är främst kopplade till lärarens förmåga att ställa öppna frågor under samtalet.

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att belysa både pedagogers och elevers tal kring högläsningen i undervisningen i en årskurs 2. Detta gör vi genom att undersöka pedagogiska metoder kring högläsning i undervisningen och pedagogernas uppfattning om högläsningens effekter. Arbetet grundar sig på ett sociokulturellt perspektiv och genomsyras av psykologen Vygotskijs tankar om lärande. Våra frågeställningar är: Vilka metoder kan användas kring högläsning i undervisningen?, Vilka effekter anser pedagogerna att högläsningen kan ha? samt Hur upplever eleverna högläsningen och arbetet kring denna?Undersökningen baseras på intervjuer med en klasslärare och en fritidspedagog i den aktuella klassen för att kunna belysa hur deras tal om effekterna av de metoder som används under arbetet med högläsningen. För att få ett bredare material att utgå ifrån belyser vi även elevernas perspektiv om hur de upplever högläsning och arbetet kring högläsningen. Eleverna fick genom text och bild besvara två frågor om vad de tycker om högläsningen i skolan. Empirinsamlingen avslutades med två observationer för att få en bild av den dagliga verksamheten. Vi observerade pedagogerna under två olika lektionstillfällen för att få en bild av hur högläsning användes i undervisningen samt för att vi skulle få ett komplement till våra intervjuer med pedagogerna.Det resultat vi kom fram till var de metoder som pedagoger kan använda sig av kring högläsning kan vara grupparbete, återberättande och bokprat. Pedagogerna anser att högläsning bidrar till många positiva effekter, exempelvis ökat ordförråd samt inspiration till egen läsning.. Attityden till högläsning bland eleverna är positiv, då de upplever att högläsning är roligt och meningsfullt. Vår slutsats av studien är att deltagarna i vår undersökning anser att högläsning är ett viktigt och uppskattat moment i undervisningen, där effekterna och metoderna är många.

Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur skolbibliotekarier samarbetar med pedagoger och specialpedagoger i arbetet med att motivera och inspirera svaga läsare i år 1-5.Arbetet ger en översikt av hur skolbibliotekarier, pedagoger och specialpedagoger tar tillvara varandras kompetenser för att utforma en god läsmiljö. Med hjälp av kvalitativa halvstrukturerade intervjuer ville vi beskriva läsfrämjande metoder samt undersöka hur de samarbetade. Sammanfattningsvis visar resultaten att samarbetsformerna skiljer sig beroende på yttre förutsättningar som delaktighet i arbetslag, skolbibliotekets öppettider och skolbibliotekets placering. Vi kan konstatera att högläsning, boksamtal och bokprat anses som viktiga läsfrämjande metoder.Nyckelord: svaga läsare, läs- och skrivsvårigheter, läslust, läsfrämjande metoder, god läsmiljö, boksamtal, bokprat, högläsning, samarbete

This study examines booktalk, that is, teacher-led group discussions about books for children in a Swedish school. The empirical data comprise 24 hours of videorecorded booktalk in grades 4–7. In total, 40 children (aged 10–14 years) were recorded during 24 sessions. The present approach diverges from previous readerresponse studies in that it draws on authentic data, and in that it examines talk at a micro level, applying an approach from discursive psychology. By focusing on authentic book discussions, the study contributes to the development of readerresponse methods. All eight books applied in the booktalk sessions involved some type of  existential issue: freedom, separation, loyalty, and mortal danger (Chapter 4). Yet, such issues were rarely discussed. An important task of the present thesis was to understand why such issues did not materialise, that is, what did not take place. In Chapter 5, a series of booktalk dilemmas were identified. The booktalk sessions were generally lively and informal. Yet, booktalk as such was often transformed into other local educational projects; e.g. time scheduling, vocabulary lessons or reading aloud exercises. Gender was invoked in all booktalk sessions (Chapter 6). In line with predictions from reader-response theory, progressive texts were, at times, discussed in gender stereotypical ways. The findings also revealed a generational pattern in that the pupils discussed fictive children in less traditional ways than adult characters. The interface between texts and life was invoked in all booktalk sessions (Chapter 7). There was, again, a generational pattern in that children entertained ideas other than those of their teachers concerning legitimate topics in a school context. Also, the discussions revealed a problem of balance between pupils’ privacy, on the one hand, and engaging discussions on texts and life, on the other.

My thesis is a study of how the perception of booktalk aimed at kids and youngsters in the Swedish educational system has changed between 1932 and 2007. A discursive reading of articles in the magazine Biblioteksbladet provides the basis for my investigation. The thesis argues that an older "authoritaritan" and "traditional" discourse has given way for a more modern, "anti-authoritaritan" and "lust"-directed discourse. The older discourse was designed to make sure that young people were provided with a certain well-defined quantity of "approved" literature. The new discourse stresses the importance of fostering kids and youngsters with a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards reading in general. However the new discoruse is not without conflicts of its own, som e of which are addressed in this thesis. In order to provide for a basis of method concerning the making of a discursive reading of the articles of Biblioteksbladet included in the investigation are several discourse analytical perspectives such as amongst others that of Michel Foucault discussed in the thesis.