Promising Practices for Improving Reading Attitudes.

ABSTRACT The research on the effect of attitudes on tending is reviewed in this paper to support the Fosition that the affective part,of learning is as'imFortantto learning to read well as are the cognitive skills. Suggestions for improving reading attitudes Are givena Activities are suggested for five forms cf creative reading: (1) model imitations, in which the reader is asked.to find creative .ways of doing the same thing as thf author; (2) idea extension, elaboration, and augmentation; (3) visualization, the process of giving concrete form'to the mental images resulting from reading; ((4) incorporation, where the reader is prodOcing his or herlown ideas) from.fragments from the reading; and (5) contradictory $k supportimg reaaing, that is both critical and prodmtive.-On the premigOa that effective iicrk withIguestions can help reading attitudes,'18 ideas for guestionirg games are described. (MKM)