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"She Knows What I Like": Student-Generated Best-Practice Statements for Encouraging Recreational Book Reading in Adolescents
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Merga, Margaret Kristin – Australian Journal of Education, 2015
The benefit of recreational book reading is well recognized, however the role of teachers in encouraging recreational reading beyond the primary school years of skill acquisition is not clearly defined. In 2012, the West Australian Study in Adolescent Book Reading was undertaken in 20 schools in Western Australia. As part of the study, students…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Recreational Reading, Reading Attitudes, Teacher Role
True Confessions (From the Teacher's Desk).
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Krieger, Evelyn – Journal of Reading, 1991
Relates how an eighth grade teacher read an unfamiliar book for the first time along with her students, thus seeing the story through their eyes and modeling for them the kinds of strategies a good reader naturally employs. Notes that students responded positively, doing most of the talking and much of the discussion and class preparation. (SR)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Reading Aloud to Others
The Effects of Oral Reading on Reading Interest in Eighth Grade.
Robertson, Victoria A. – 1989
A study examined whether a group of eighth graders whose teacher read orally to them for 10 minutes daily would develop greater interest in reading for pleasure than similar students who did not experience the teacher reading orally to them. Subjects, 36 urban and suburban youngsters, were divided into an experimental and a control sample.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Independent Reading, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
The Efficacy of Shared Reading with Teens.
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Hicks, Karen; Wadlington, Beth – 1994
An instructional strategy adapted the Big Book reading experience to the adolescent student to increase enthusiasm for reading, vocabulary development, and sound word attack and comprehension strategies. Criteria for choosing books to read aloud with teenagers include: (1) select well written books; (2) select books that reflect students'…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness
Project A.R.I.S.E. Reading Attitude Pilot Study.
Herrold, William G., Jr.; And Others – 1987
A pilot study examined the effect of a read-aloud literature program on the attitudes of middle school students toward reading. A randomly selected group of 70 teachers and 1,673 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students from four regions of the United States and one region in Europe participated. Testing the hypothesis that student attitudes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Curriculum Development, Grade 6, Grade 7
Comparison of the Effect of a Middle School, Literature-Based Listening Program on Male and Female Attitudes toward Reading.
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Herrold, William G., Jr.; And Others – Educational Research Quarterly, 1989
The effect of a listening-to-literature program on the attitudes toward reading of 1,712 middle school (grades 6 through 8) students was studied. Selected teachers read aloud to students four or five days a week for six months. An experimental group pretest/posttest design indicated a positive difference in student attitudes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Grade 6