Motivating Students To Read: Using Authors and Literature from Their Home State.

Richardson, Maurine V.; Miller, Margaret B.

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ERIC Number: EJ636909

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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Motivating Students To Read: Using Authors and Literature from Their Home State.

Richardson, Maurine V.; Miller, Margaret B.

Reading Improvement, v38 n3 p119-24 Fall 2001

Suggests a possibility of resolving the problem of reading motivation for some students. Considers that children and adults like to read about familiar places such as their home state with people and settings that they know about written by authors who live or have lived in that state. Includes a list of 50 books (arranged by state) for the upper Midwest. (SG)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection, Reading Motivation

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles; Reference Materials - Bibliographies

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Language: English

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