What happens when parents and students engage in a collaborative book club?

This qualitative study investigates the potential benefits of students and their parents engaging in a collaborative book club using various texts and reader response activities. The parents and students completed a pre and post survey describing their literacy interests and engagement. Parents read various books with their children. Both parent and their child discussed the stories through a blog page and reader response activities. Narrative analysis was utilized and various themes surfaced from the data. For example: Character traits, parent-child interaction and bonding, and the value of reader response activities.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. Reading Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Language, Literacy, and Special Education

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Dulude, Samantha

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lee, Valarie

• Reading; Education, Elementary--Parent participation
• Elementary Education and Teaching

Repository record dc:identifier

https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/253

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:rdw.rowan.edu:etd-1252