ABSTRACT
This and the following chapters contain an account of the research process and the data collected, and focus, in particular, on the differences in the kinds of narrative choices reported by the boys and girls in the survey. They are an elaboration of the following research questions:
• What differences do boys and girls report in their reading interests? • What reading choices are most typical of boys and girls? • What other sources of narrative pleasures do they find? • What are the current interests of pupils that may have direct bearing on
their literacy development? The fourth question was further subdivided into the following areas:
• which comics and magazines do they choose? • what television programmes do they watch? • what computer games do they play?
