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Are We Having Fun Yet? Students, Social Class, and the Pleasures of Literacy

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Williams, Bronwyn T. – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2004

This document discusses the author's personal opinion and feelings on teaching. She expresses her love for literacy and the hope to engage her students with the same feeling, yet not force it upon them.

Descriptors: Social Class, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Reading Motivation

The Potential and Real Achievement of U.S. Students in School Reading.

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Purves, Alan C. – American Journal of Education, 1984

Focuses on reading in the school domain and concludes that achievement in reading results from a combination of maturation, exposure, and instruction. Assesses the limits an successes of the instruction of reading in the U.S. and makes cross-national comparisons. (RDN)

Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Interpretive Skills