Abstract

MUELA-BERMEJO, Diana  and  LABORDA-CASAMIAN, Pilar. Comparative Children’s Reading Responses to Narrative and non-Narrative Nonfiction Books. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2023, n.89, pp.340-358.  Epub Mar 11, 2024. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num89-17426.

Non-fiction books have experienced a rise in the last decades. The growing development of its theoretical framework runs parallel to the advance of picture books and illustrated book, with a strong predominance of the visual component. Moreover, in recent years, a significant corpus of narrative non-fiction books has gained singular relevance, which is included within the fiction framework and has a hybrid character that is difficult to define from a semiotic perspective. However, there is still a bibliographic gap concerning children's experiences of reading non-fiction books, both in the classroom and in the family environment; even more so, if possible, regarding the differentiation between narrative non-fiction and non-narrative non-fiction readings, which could allow for a more precise delimitation of these concepts. Using qualitative research methods, we carried out an analysis of the reading responses of 34 children between 8 and 9 years of age in a Spanish school to a selection of non-fiction non-narrative and non-fiction narrative books, considering their reading attitudes and strategies.

Keywords : reading; children's literature; non-fiction books; text comprehension; illustrated books.

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