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The Precarious Place of Self? Selected Reading

Jo Worthy, Megan Moorman, Margo Turner

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Finds that the 35 middle-school language-arts teachers studied agreed that Self Selected Reading (SSR) is an important way to improve students’ reading attitudes and achievement, but that their schools rarely provided funds for buying student-preferred materials, and that finding time for SSR was difficult because of the pressure to prepare for tests and cover skills.

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Finds that the 35 middle-school language-arts teachers studied agreed that Self Selected Reading (SSR) is an important way to improve students’ reading attitudes and achievement, but that their schools rarely provided funds for buying student-preferred materials, and that finding time for SSR was difficult because of the pressure to prepare for tests and cover skills.

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Finds that the 35 middle-school language-arts teachers studied agreed that Self Selected Reading (SSR) is an important way to improve students’ reading attitudes and achievement, but that their schools rarely provided funds for buying student-preferred materials, and that finding time for SSR was difficult because of the pressure to prepare for tests and cover skills.

Key concepts: Reading (process), Language arts, Mathematics education, Psychology, The arts, Pedagogy, Shared reading, Cover (algebra)

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