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Interestingness of children's reading material

This paper summarizes the results of a series of investigations into the interestingness of children's reading material. First, we describe our own investigations using sentences, which show that interest has s pervasive effect on learning that is independent of the relationship between attention and learning. Next, we present two compatible theories of interest: our theory of what makes sentences interesting and a theory of story interest. Finally, we comment on the contrast between the interestingness of children's trade books on the one hand and their basal readers and content area textbooks on the other. A major educational implication of this research on interest is that schools should promote the reading of trade books as part of

Richard C. Anderson

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