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selection interesting or easy. We hope this study
can be a springboard for teachers and educators
to start valuing boy struggling readers‘ voices and
hear what they have to say about themselves. We
encourage teachers to conduct a similar interview
or survey with each student in his/her class, to
establish a reader profile for each student, and to
use the reading profiles to make instructional
decisions and offer students in their classrooms
choices in the materials they read.

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