The Relationship Between Positive Adolescent Attitudes Toward Reading and Home Literary Environment

Abstract

While factors known to positively affect attitudes toward reading have been investi-gated, the relationship between attitudes toward reading and home literary environments, particularly with older students, needs to be more fully explored. This investigation focused on the nature of the relationship between high school students' reading attitudes and the literary environment in which they were raised. 62 Reading Horizons, 2002, 43 (1) THE LITERARY DEVELOPMENT of adolescents is just as important and requires just as much attention as that of beginning readers. Yet local, state, and national debates over reading have focused primarily on beginners. Today's adolescents live in a world that requires them to be