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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
A nonprofit group has identified more than 1,500 books that local schools in America have banned from their libraries and classrooms in 2022-2023.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The free-speech activism group PEN America is based in New York City. The group said the number represented a 33 percent increase from the year before.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The American Library Association (ALA) says that there were more attempts to ban books from schools last year than ever before.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Moms for Liberty is a parental rights group based in Florida. The group has supported efforts to bar certain books from school libraries around the country.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Group co-founder Tiffany Justice told the television network NewsNation last year that many books in school libraries are not right for children or teenagers and are harmful.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
“Public school children K through 12 do not have unfettered access to the internet at school, or movies, or music,” Justice said.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
“But somehow these books with these horribly explicit graphic content are finding their way onto bookshelves in public schools all over America.”
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Gay Ivey is a professor of literacy at University of North Carolina- Greensboro.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
She and her research partner Peter Johnston from the University of Albany have studied students’ motivations to read.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
They also have studied how students react to reading young adult literature. Ivey said school boards and policymakers do not agree about the purpose of reading in school.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Ivey and Johnston said they found that reading books considered disturbing by students was beneficial for their learning and emotional development.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The two said parents also noticed a growth in their children after they read the disturbing books.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
In one of Ivey and Johnston’s studies, they spent a year in a middle school in an eastern town. They asked eighth grade students in an English class to choose any book they wanted…
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The teens read the books during class time. They were not under any pressure from teachers to finish the book or to produce any schoolwork about the book.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The researchers later spoke to 71 of the students about their experiences reading the books they chose. They also spoke to their parents and teachers.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Many of the students chose to read books that deal with difficult subjects like depression, suicide, illegal drug use, or sexual exploitation
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Some of the books students chose were ones that schools around the country have banned.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Ivey told VOA that students are drawn to books that deal with troubling subjects.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Instead of being harmed by such subjects, reading about fictional characters made them more empathetic she said. Ivey said they also were more thoughtful about the characters’ mot…
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The researchers found that reading made the students happier, and helped some heal from sadness or depression.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The difficult nature of the books made the students more likely to discuss the subjects with teachers, parents and friends.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
The students in the study read books “that kind of throw you off - kilter that make you want to talk to somebody else,” Ivey said.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
“The social interaction around it was really important, including talking to parents and teachers.” The subjects covered in the books may make both kids and adults uncomfortable.
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
But Ivey said she and Johnston “came to realize that what really matters is the meaning that the kids make out of the books, not adults’ meanings that they make. Which are often t…
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Researchers: Books about Difficult, Adult Subjects Make Kids Better Readers
Ivey said reading texts with difficult and troubling subject matter makes students more involved readers and learners.
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