| According to the 2007 NEA study, To Read or Not To Read, “the average 15 to 24-year-old spends 2.5 hours per day watching TV and 7 minutes reading. Half the young people 18 to 24 never read for pleasure, and only a third of high school seniors read at proficiency, the level needed to read …newspaper(s).” This case looks at Alliteracy, the state of being able to read but being uninterested in doing so, and its relationship to illiteracy. How can schools and districts work together to support student reading as a factor in student achievement.
Discussion Questions
- How can we fund assessments, reading specialists, and proper materials to work with students who are reading below grade level?
- How can teachers and librarians become more familiar with young adult literature to encourage reluctant readers?
- During times of deep budget cuts, what could and should be acquired by a school library that might encourage students to read for pleasure and thereby help create life long learners?
- How do we start setting up a forum, like a book club, that
allows students to share their personal reading experiences as consumers of literature?
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Connie S. Parsons
TNLI
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New York City
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