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McKool, Sharon S.; Gespass, Suzanne – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
This article investigates the relationship between teachers' personal reading habits and their instructional practices. Teachers responded to a questionnaire that revealed their attitudes toward reading, the amount of time they spent reading per day and the kind of literacy practices that they used in their classrooms. Results indicate: (1) while…
Descriptors: Reading Teachers, Reading Habits, Leisure Time, Reading Attitudes
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McKool, Sharon S. – Reading Improvement, 2007
According to recent research, there is a strong relationship between the amount of out-of-school reading a student engages in and his or her success in school in reading (Anderson, Fielding, & Wilson, 1988; Stanovich, 1986; Taylor, Frye, & Maruyama, 1990; Walberg & Tsai, 1984). This relationship reveals the importance of investigating why so few…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Grade 5, Performance Factors