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Hallenbeck, Mark J. – Academic Therapy, 1983
A free reading program in which learning disabled adolescents select from a variety of high interest-low vocabulary materials can help motivate students to read. Students follow up the reading period by writing in a journal which the teacher reads and responds to. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Independent Reading, Learning Disabilities
Moje, Elizabeth Birr – 2000
Based on the premise that young people have important stories to tell, this book presents adolescents' lives and experiences to show the importance of understanding their literacy practices, to generate ideas for relating those practices to teaching and curriculum development, and to advance the idea that all children need strong, abiding…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Development, Literacy, Reading Habits
Peer reviewedStripling, Barbara – Catholic Library World, 1985
Discusses results of survey of senior high school student attitudes toward reading for pleasure and suggests ways in which librarians, working with students, teachers, and parents, can integrate pleasure reading into curriculum and home; i.e., provide appealing materials, recommended bibliographies, networks for sharing information about books,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Library Role, Library Services
Download full textFuchs, Lucy – 1987
Intended to help parents and teachers select books for young people that reflect the actual interests of adolescents, this booklet discusses titles that both appeal to teenagers and help adults gain insight into their needs, their concerns, and their values. Titles of chapters in the booklet are as follows: (1) "Are Young Adult Books…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Literature Appreciation, Reading Attitudes
Mellon, Constance A. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1990
Reports on a survey of the leisure reading of 700 teenagers in rural North Carolina which collected data on reading for pleasure, types of materials selected, favorite authors and books, differences in interests of boys and girls, reasons for reading, and how respondents find out about books. Implications for teachers and library media specialists…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Library Role, Literature Appreciation
Thomason, Nevada – 1983
To investigate adolescent reading habits and interests, a reading interest survey was administered to 103 male and 133 female sophomore English students from two high schools with similar socioeconomic backgrounds but different individualized reading programs. In the first school, students read and made book reports on three novels of their own…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, English Instruction, Females
Mellon, Constance A. – School Library Journal, 1987
A study of the leisure reading patterns of rural ninth graders gathered data on what percentage of respondents claimed that they read in their spare time; non-reader's reasons for not reading; and such factors as types of books purchased, and where and when they were read. (EM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Grade 9, High School Students
