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ERIC Number: EJ568481
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0360-9170
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The Precarious Place of Self-Selected Reading.
Worthy, Jo; Turner, Margo; Moorman, Megan
Language Arts, v75 n4 p296-304 Apr 1998
Finds that the 35 middle-school language-arts teachers studied agreed that Self Selected Reading (SSR) is an important way to improve students' reading attitudes and achievement, but that their schools rarely provided funds for buying student-preferred materials, and that finding time for SSR was difficult because of the pressure to prepare for tests and cover skills. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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