Läsläxan - hur viktig är den? : En kvalitativ studie om lärares uppfattning av läsläxans betydelse för elevern as läsutveckling på lågstadiet

Sammanfattning: In today's school and society homework is a controversial topic. Some teachers have completely abandoned work with homework, while others believe that homework is necessary. What about the reading homework at the primary school, how important is it? The Swedish school needs to work towards improving students’ readability and increase equivalence so that students’ school results are not depended on their soc io-econom ical background. Homework could be a way to improve the readability among students, but there is also a risk that it neg atively affects equality since all students do not have the same access to support at home. The purpose of the study is to describe why teachers choose to give or not to give reading homework, what the pros and cons they see with the homework are and if they find that the reading homework is different from other types of homework. In order to answer the question I studied earlier literature and research on the subject. I also chose to conduct qualitative interviews with six teachers teaching the subject of Swedish at primary school. The result shows that teachers disagreed with the issue of reading homework and its importance for learning. However, all teachers believe that the more students read, the more the students' readability develops. The advantages and disadvantages of reading homework raised in this study include, among other things, equivalence, time and students access to support. The result also shows that teachers find that the homework is different from other types of homework, for example, because reading is the foundation of many subjects.