Guidelines for the Selection and Presentation of Leisure Reading for Beginning Deaf Readers

Author

Mary Lee Walter, Fontbonne College

Year of Award

1968

Degree

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

College

College of Education & Allied Health

Department

Communication Disorders and Deaf Education

Keywords

children, literature, books, phrasing, discourse, illustrations, quality

Abstract

For the purpose of this paper, children’s leisure reading will be defined as the reading of worthwhile literature written especially for children. This paper will only deal with the prose writings in this field, and does not include the basal reader program, nor such things as comic books, children's magazines, and the like. Now that a definition of leisure reading has been established, it is necessary to determine the value of leisure reading. A very common attitude toward leisure reading has been that it is an extra, added attraction, that the basal reader program provided in modern education more than adequately instructs children in the skills of reading.

Comments

Original copy bound in Deaf Education Theses 1968. Manuscript 5 of 14.

Document Type

Restricted Thesis

Recommended Citation

Walter, Mary Lee, "Guidelines for the Selection and Presentation of Leisure Reading for Beginning Deaf Readers" (1968). All Theses, Dissertations, and Capstone Projects. 123.
https://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/all-etds/123