Improving Recreational Reading Habits: Using Entertainment Schemata to Make Predictions about Text.

Longman, Debbie Guice; Atkinson, Rhonda Holt

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Publication Date: 1987

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Improving Recreational Reading Habits: Using Entertainment Schemata to Make Predictions about Text.

Longman, Debbie Guice; Atkinson, Rhonda Holt

Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, v4 n1 p47-50 Fall 1987

Advocates teaching developmental students to apply the schemata they unconsciously use when choosing movies or television programs to select recreational books. Reviews six steps in surveying/previewing recreational books and three stages of diminishing teacher involvement in book selection. (DMM)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Attitudes, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection, Recreational Reading, Remedial Reading, Teacher Role

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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