Marbles-Point+of+view

__About Klauda's article__

The author analyzes the results and methodology of various studies concerning how parents’ support for reading relates to the reading motivations and habits of adolescents. Although they may be useful to reinforce our arguments, I believe most of the researchers mentioned in the text did not consider that the social environment also has an impact on reading habits.If possible, we will try to broach this subject. Moreover, the the author could have presented more concrete solutions to foster reading.

__About Collins and Matthey's article:__

Although this article is more focused on reading difficulties, it presents and discusses a variety of strategies for stimulating children to read - strategies which can also be useful for children that do not necessarily have difficulties in reading, but still need stimulus. Therefore, this article can be very useful for our essay. The fact that the strategies presented are very concrete is a rather positive point in this text; instead of displaying theories, the authors describe straightforward procedures, like the reinforcement system. Another positive point is that they assert the importance of "providing assistance to children within their home environment", that is, parents should not depute to school the entire responsibility for their children's reading habits.

__About Hay's article:__

Hay's article focuses mostly on the dialogic reading intervention program and the two possible ways to put it to action. One way is to focus on the language devolopment of the children, and the other is more concerned on developing their speaking skills. The first part of the article, in which the method is presented, is very useful for our essay; the second half and the conclusion, on the other hand, describes the implementing of these two different approaches to the technique, and does not present much useful information for the group.

Elisa, Jéssica and Luise