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Reading Engagement for Tweens and Teens - What Would Make Them Read More? (Paperback)
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Reading Engagement for Tweens and Teens - What Would Make Them Read More? (Paperback)
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Identifies evidence-backed and easy-to-implement strategies for
encouraging young people to read, and helps you to position your
library as an indispensable resource for supporting reading. While
most reading research focuses on young children, this book looks at
how to support reading beyond the early years and into adulthood.
Reporting on strong, peer-reviewed research supported by sound
theoretical and methodological approaches, it emphasizes the
practical implications of these findings, sharing what this means
for you in terms of how you can be a powerful positive reading
model and influence in young people's lives. Enriched with the
voices of today's young people, the book includes quotes that allow
readers to decide how to support reading engagement for tweens and
teens based on what would make them read more, as expressed in
their own words. Engaging and readable, it will be of interest to
school and public librarians and can be shared with teachers,
parents, and other literacy instructors and advocates. Considers
strategies for countering the biggest barriers to reading as
identified by young people Explains how to most effectively
implement common strategies to support reading engagement at your
school, such as implementing sustained silent reading, having
conversations about books, and reading aloud to older children
Offers strategies for promoting awareness of the ongoing value of
reading and for teaching parents and teachers to encourage reading
beyond the point of independent reading skill acquisition Moves
away from generalizations that reinforce gender stereotypes and
stereotypes about tweens and teens related to their technology use
and skills Highlights the importance of access to books and
provides evidence for the role of libraries as reading-supportive
spaces
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