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Calkins, Lucy – Instructor, 1996
To motivate students to read, it is important for teachers to teach the reader, not the reading. This article presents three strategies for accomplishing this: studying the child, not the book; focusing on students' reading lives and knowing them as readers; and thinking of students as readers. (SM)
Descriptors: Conferences, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Reading Motivation
