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Creating a Classroom Where Readers Flourish

Creating a Classroom Where Readers Flourish Numerous research studies prove that wide reading improves children's comprehension, background knowledge, vocabulary, fluency, and writing. The author, a sixth‐grade language arts teacher, describes the classroom conditions and instructional practices that encourage wide reading and increase her students' reading motivation such as choice in reading material, dedicating time for reading, and promoting children's literature. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Reading Teacher Wiley

Creating a Classroom Where Readers Flourish

Miller, Donalyn
The Reading Teacher , Volume 66 (2) – Oct 1, 2012
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Wiley
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© 2012 by the International Reading Association, Inc
ISSN
0034-0561
eISSN
1936-2714
DOI
10.1002/TRTR.01109
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Abstract

Numerous research studies prove that wide reading improves children's comprehension, background knowledge, vocabulary, fluency, and writing. The author, a sixth‐grade language arts teacher, describes the classroom conditions and instructional practices that encourage wide reading and increase her students' reading motivation such as choice in reading material, dedicating time for reading, and promoting children's literature.

Journal

The Reading Teacher – Wiley

Published: Oct 1, 2012

References

  • Toward an educationally relevant theory of literacy learning: Twenty years of inquiry
    Cambourne, Cambourne
  • Creating classroom cultures that foster reading motivation
    Gambrell, Gambrell