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Publication Date: 2009-Jul
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"Ripples in the Upside-Down Lake of the World": Running a Read-Aloud Marathon
Iasevoli, Dave
English Journal, v98 n6 p74-78 Jul 2009
The author describes what happened when he and his students spent a day with Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." By reentering the novel and moving along with it, the students pushed at or pushed away some academic boundaries, and re-discovered the fun and power of reading.
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Novels, English Instruction, High Schools, Reading Instruction
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