Will+previewing+the+front+and+back+of+a+book+help+make+you+have+further+interest+in+a+book?-+Geena,+JW,+Becca

Can you really judge a book by its cover??? Hypothesis: Our hypothesis is the kids will get further interest after previewing title and the back cover. We recently did an experiment on different reading strategies. The reading strategy that we picked was previewing. The question that we picked to do research on was that if, **the reader previews the cover of a book and the back will stronger the interest in reading the book?** We interviewed ten different people out of a random pick, five girls and five boys. The books that we used were __The boy in the basement__ by Susan Shaw and __A Tale Dark and Grimm__ by Adam Gidwitz. Our procedure was that we would have the __students__ come up one at a time, show them one of the books which would be, __The boy in the basement__, he/ she would look at the front of the book and tell us what type of interest came to mind when they looked at the cover. After that __student__ was done, he/ she would read the back of the book and then tell us what type of interest came to mind. Next the same __student__ would do the same to the second book, __A Tale Dark and Grimm__. We would write down what each __student__ said. On the first day of testing we interviewed four students’ two girls and two boys. Most of the results for, __The boy in the basement__, were mystery, dark, and frightened. The other results for the same book are trapped or abandon in the basement because of the title and of the picture on the front of the book. Also what we have noticed about the results were very few __students__ that looked at the cover and read the back of the book brought interest into them when they were previewing the front and the back of the book. Also on the first day we noticed in the results of the book, __A tale Dark and Grimm__, that it brought very few interest into the reader as they told us after they previewed the front and back of the book. Another thing that we noticed in our results is that when looking at the results, the words that came up a lot are, mystery, dark/ spooky, scary, and some kind of words that describes murder or death or bloody. The second day that we interviewed six __students__, three girls and three boys. For the results of the book, __The boy in the basement__, weren’t similar to the first day. Except for a few __students__ had a similar word or words of the students on the first day of the experiment. For the book, A Tale Dark and Grim, every person we interviewed came with the same results and thoughts. Every one said mysterious but also thrilling because of the way the words were made and the way it described it. Also everyone was interested in what the book was about and some even wanted to read it. It was also interesting how even though the book was made to be scary they all didn’t really think it was too creepy to read. The conclusion is that previewing the text does __give__ students further interest. Students said after reading the text that they had further interest in the book. But some students didn’t really care about the book. I think the test would be better if we used books people were interested in like the hunger __games__. But overall the answer to our question is yes that it did make the reader more interest into reading the book by just looking at the title and the back cover. Recommendation: That maybe before you get a book preview it and see what kind of interest you have or if you dont have any then put the book down and __find__ another one that interest you more.

Book 1 Mystery, intense, scary, intereging- Carly Someone got abducted-basement part. Being touched by his dad for something that he did. - Luke Mystery- rashmi Mystery trapped in the basement- griffin Kinda __looks__ mysterious- more interesting- Ashley Dark, abanneded, sad, painful, encouraging- Kyle Scary, frightened- Katie Nothing, thriller- Jacob Dark, depressed, scary, desperate, fear, new- ellie The kid is kidnapped and in the basement getting abused- Ryan Book 2 Kid’s book, thrilling but not intense, looks fun- Carly Mystery, murder, horror, something it said axe – Luke Thriller or mystery kind of scary- Rashimi Halloween book, someone getting killed- griffin Book all right, not something that I would pick, looks pretty cool, dark- Ashley Fairytale, old, death, bloody, stones- Kyle Spooky, scary- Katie Old, dark-Jacob Dark, scary, fairytale and Hansel and grettle, and bread crumbs- Ellie Peaceful, dark, weird, insane- Ryan