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Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers
How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way
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2011
Summary
Computer games, video games, Internet, iPods, DVDs, CDs, texting, social media, and surfing: No wonder reading has a hard time competing for adolescents' attention. Research studies find that interest in reading diminishes after the fourth grade and continues through high school. Throw in a testing culture with all its drill lessons and you still wind up with 50% of college freshman unable to comprehend the textbooks. Whatever happened to motivation? You can lead a horse to water, but…
Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way contains over 1,000 diverse, original, fun, creative, absurd, challenging questions on reading that will inspire adolescent reading lives from the inside out. The four books of questions contained in this volume are designed to help kids help themselves find their ways to a desire to read. Weekly questions, discussions, and raps, a one-year journey into the worlds of reading compel preteens and teens to face their demons peacefully and to re-create a passion for reading, of course, with a little guidance from their friends: teachers, parents, and this book. Check out some questions:
— What was the first book you remember reading by yourself? What thoughts are triggered by this book? What feelings come back to you?
— Think of a word that makes you feel "good." Silently say the word over and over again to yourself. Describe what you experienced.
— Athletes say they're in-the-zone when playing at their best. Describe your reading when you're reading-in-the-zone.
— Reading everyday quietly changes your world. Explain.
— Mind-pictures: reading's little miracles. Explain
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61048-032-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-61048-034-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
268
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Contents No access
Preface for Educators, Parents, and Readers of All Ages No access
Preface for Students: Dazzling Your Mind with Reading No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
The Mini-Lesson with All Its Parts No access Pages 11 - 24
How to Answer the Questions on Reading and Reading Life No access Pages 25 - 34
Not-for-Parents-Only Guide to Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers No access Pages 35 - 56
Skimming the Four Books of Questions: Opening Up Reading and Reading Life for Teens and Preteens No access Pages 57 - 64
Why Won’t Michael Read? One Solution . . . No access Pages 65 - 78
Book 1 No access Pages 79 - 102
Book 2 No access Pages 103 - 136
Book 3 No access Pages 137 - 180
Book 4 No access Pages 181 - 240
Final Three Discussions and Conclusion to the Books of Questions No access Pages 241 - 242
