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Reading for Pleasure

Reading for Pleasure. Created by Jessica Brandenburg. Introduction.

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Reading for Pleasure

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  1. Reading for Pleasure Created by Jessica Brandenburg

  2. Introduction The topic that I looked at was adolescents and reading for pleasure. The overall problem is that teens are not putting as much time and energy into reading for pleasure like the generations before them have. They have more responsibilities and distractions that can prevent them from reading.

  3. Articles One of the first articles that I looked at was Reading for Pleasure: A Research Overview. Basically the article describes what reading for pleasure is and that it is a form of play where we use our imagination. The problem with adolescents and reading is that they are growing older and having to use their imagination differently. Another article that I read, Reading & Happiness, discusses the different types of happiness that we achieve from our activities. Reading is an activity that you have to endure to receive satisfaction.

  4. Articles (cont.) Two of my articles, Playing the Literacy Game and Children’s and Young People’s Reading Habits and Preference, discuss the need to encourage boys to be more motivated to read. They also stress the need to offer choice to the students and to respect the reading choices that they make. One of the major problems of today’s classroom is that the choices in reading material can be limited. This required reading limit can be uninteresting to the students and the school may be the only opportunity that they have for material. This is discussed in The Complex World of Adolescent Literacy, Assessing Adolescents Motivation to Read, and Resistance, Struggle, and the Adolescent Reader.

  5. Articles (cont.) • The last of my articles looked at what teens are doing in their free time and what type of literature they are choosing to read. These articles are Literacy as a Leisure Activity, The Leisure Habits of Urban Adolescents, and What are Teens Reading? These articles look at the fact that reading is not the most popular activity and it is also not the least likely activity either. Teens are more likely to read a magazine if they read anything during their free time. They want to read about things that relate to them and things that they care about.

  6. What I have gotten from this • Motivate the students • Find Materials that interest them • Find subjects that interest them • Boys need more motivation • Wider selection of genres, formats but still within their reading level Distractions

  7. How will I use this? I plan to use the information that I found in these articles to change the way I approach reluctant readers. I plan to offer more choices and more books that cover their interests. Interests • Celebrities • Sports • People like them • Information relevant to their lives

  8. Citation of Articles • Pitcher, S, Albright, L, Delaney, C, Walker, N, & Seunarinesingh, K. (2007). Assessing adolescents motivation to read. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 50(5), 378-396. • Clark, C, & Foster, A. (2005). Children’s and young people’s reading habits and preferences: the who, what, why, where, and when. National Literacy Trust. • Moje, E, Overby, M, Tysvaer, N, & Morris, K. (2008). The Complete world of adolescent literacy: myths, motivations, and mysteries. Harvard Educational Review, 78(1). • Hughes-Hassell, S. & Rodge, P. (2007) The leisure habits of urban adolescents. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 51(1), 22-33. • Nippold, M., Duthie, J., & Larsen, J. (2005) Literacy as a leisure activity: free time preferences of older children and young adolescents. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools Vol.36, 93-102. • Selk, J. (2009). Playing the literacy game. Literacy Today, (59), 17-18. • Baines, L. (2009). Reading & happiness. Phi Delta Kappan, 90(9), 686-688. • Clark, C, & Rumbold, K. (2006). Reading for pleasure: a research overview. National Literacy Trust. • Lenters, K. (2006) Resistance, struggle, and the adolescent reader. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 50(2), 136-146. • Hopper, R. (2005). What are teenagers reading? adolescent fiction, reading habits, and choices. Literacy, 39(3), 113-120.

  9. Book • Reeves, A. (2004). Adolescents talking about reading. New York: International Reading Association. • The book that I chose to look at is the one listed above. It is about a teacher who is in pursuit of why adolescents stop reading and the struggle that they have with reading. She does a case study on some high school students and their relationship with reading. In this book, the author looks at the student’s history, performance in the classroom, their family and background, and she also talks to the students.

  10. What I got from the book • The most important thing that I got from the book is that there is more than one thing that effects the way students feel towards reading. • What effects reading: • Family attitudes • Time • Past Experience • Choice in material • Beliefs about reading • I believe that this will make me a better teacher because I want to know about my students, so that I can motivate them.

  11. Websites • http://www.education.com/activity/middle-school/reading/ Activities to use with students and parents can use them too. • http://www.bookadventure.org/ A free website that allows the students to create their own lists and earn points and prizes while reading. The students could access this as a reward in the classroom and also access it at home. • http://www.teenreads.com/ This website has book reviews, author interviews, and contests for teens who read. The students would be able to access this from anywhere and get reviews about books from their peers and also leave their own reviews. • http://www.readingrockets.org/ This website offers strategies to teachers, librarians, and other educational professionals to help students with reading • http://www.rif.org/ This website offers several links and strategies to teachers and parents to help with students and reading. There are also several literacy programs.

  12. Software • Reading for Meaning • Helps students to focus on main idea, sequence, plot and other literacy skills • Read XL • Motivates and encourages students while giving them increasingly demanding text. • Scholastic & NBA/WNBA Courtside Reading • Provides Basketball based nonfiction that will interest and motivate readers • Books by You- Knowledge Adventure • Students are given a storyline to finish and they can make it their own. • Reading Blaster Ages 9-12 • This one is kind of on the low end but some students might need to build these skills.

  13. Non-fiction Books • These are some books that I have found that can provide strategies to motivate students. • 1. Motivating Readers in the Middle Grades by Joan Collins • 2. Just Teach Me, Mrs. K: Talking, Reading, and Writing with Resistant Adolescent Readers by Mary Mercer Krogness • 3. Teaching Literacy in the Middle Grades: Understanding and Supporting Literacy Development by James A. Rycik and Judith L. Irvin • 4. Reading and the Middle School Student by Judith L. Irvin • 5. Readers and Writers in the Middle Grades by Martha Combs • 6. Motivating the Struggling Adolescent Reader by Martha Stack Beaudoin; Rosanne CasaleDaigneault; Rose PetrucciZbikowski • 7. Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers by Teri Lesesne • 8. Books and Beyond: New Ways to Reach Readersby Michael F. Opitz, Michael P. Ford, and Matthew D. Zbaracki • 9. Catch a Falling Reader by Constance (Connie) R. Hebert • 10. I Won't Read and You Can't Make Me: Reaching Reluctant Teen Readers by Marilyn Reynolds

  14. Girls (Books that would motivate girls more) Boys (Books that would motivate boys more) • The Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander • Mysteries for Girls • Deep Down and Popular by Phoebe Stone • Deep Down and Popular by Phoebe Stone • Enter Three Witches by Caroline Cooney • The Cry of Icemarkby Stuart Hill • Tales of Suspense for Boys • Safe at Home by Sharon Robinson • Box Out by John Coy • Heat by Mike Lupica • The Big Splash by Jerry Ferraiolo Trade Books

  15. Picture Books (Books to motivate both genders) • Mandy by Barbara D. Booth • Hoops By Stephen Johnson • Flight by Robert Burleigh • The Wall by Eve Bunting • A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting • Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull • Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella by Charles Perrault • Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say • Harlem by Walter Dean Myers • Patrol; An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers

  16. How this changes me? • I believe that this has opened up my eyes to the fact that there needs to be more focus on getting adolescents to continue to enjoy reading and to see it as a pleasurable activity. I think that when I teach reading or work in a library I will focus on motivating and encouraging the students to read something they enjoy because then they will continue to read.

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