Reading Engagement for Tweens and Teens
What Would Make Them Read More?
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Identifies evidence-backed and easy-to-implement strategies for encouraging young people to read, and helps you to position your library as an indispensable resource for supporting reading. While most reading research focuses on young children, this book looks at how to support reading beyond the early years and into adulthood. Reporting on strong, peer-reviewed research supported by sound theoretical and methodological approaches, it emphasizes the practical implications of these findings, sharing what this means for you in terms of how you can be a powerful positive reading model and influence in young people's lives. Enriched with the voices of today's young people, the book includes quotes that allow readers to decide how to support reading engagement for tweens and teens based on what would make them read more, as expressed in their own words. Engaging and readable, it will be of interest to school and public librarians and can be shared with teachers, parents, and other literacy instructors and advocates.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Why Is Book Reading (Still) Important?
- 2. From Learning to Read to Reading to Learn: Why Does Reading for Pleasure Fall by the Wayside?
- 3. Are Books Really Uncool?
- 4. Myths about Boys, and Why They Get Oxygen
- 5. Powerful Parents
- 6. The Myth of the e-Book-Loving Digital Natives
- 7. What Would Make Young People Read More Books?
- 8. Reading Is for Pleasure, Not Just Testing
- 9. Libraries, Reading Spaces, and Choices
- 10. Final Thoughts
- Appendix: Research Projects
- References
- Index