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Succeeding with Book Shopping
The two most powerful factors for improving reading motivation and comprehension are (1) student access to many books and (2) personal choice of what to read (Guthrie and Humenick, 2004). Those factors are in action when children go shopping in a classroom library. I genuinely hope my six tips will help you turn your students into efficient book shoppers and eager readers.
References
Allington, R. (2012). Every child, every day.
Educational Leadership, 69(6), 10-15.
Guthrie, J.T., & Humenick, N. M. (2004).
Motivating students to read: Evidence for classroom practices that increase motivation and achievement. In P. McCardle & V. Chhabra (Eds.) The voice of evidence in reading research (pp. 329-354) Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes.
Scholastic, Inc. (2014). Classroom libraries
work! Retrieved from http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/Classroombooks/pdfs/research/What_Effective_Libraries.pdf.
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