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ORC Resource Number #10235
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Motivating Students to Read Fiction
PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY

In this classroom vignette, Helen Holdridge, a teacher of English language arts for 30 years, shares her experience of what she's learned about motivating adolescents to read fiction. She includes "three essential ingredients": (1) "first, and perhaps foremost, is to give the students a choice of what they will read; (2) "the classroom library must have a wide selection of books and cater to a variety of reading levels; and (3) "give students time to read during the school day." Her article is informative as she shares both what reading strategies she's used and how she's applied those reading strategies successfully. This vignette appears in full in AdLIT's In Perspective (May/June 2006). (author/ebm)

OHIO STANDARDS
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English Language Arts Standards
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
NATIONAL STANDARDS
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Standards for the English Language Arts
Reading strategies, language use, and conventions
RESOURCE TYPE
Content Resource
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Grades 6–Postsecondary
TOPICS
English Language Arts --
Literature;
Children's Literature;
Professional Development;
Reading;
Independent Reading;
OHIOWINS INSTRUCTIONAL TOPICS
Literature;
Young Adult Literature;
Reading Process
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KEYWORDS
Young Adult Literature;
reading choice;
motivating adolescent readers
Publisher: Ohio Resource Center
Author: Helen Holdridge