Getting Kids into the Reading Game: You Gotta Know the Rules.

Wilhelm, Jeff

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ERIC Number: EJ624618

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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Getting Kids into the Reading Game: You Gotta Know the Rules.

Wilhelm, Jeff

Voices from the Middle, v8 n4 p25-36 May 2001

Argues that schools and teachers underestimate the demands that particular texts place on readers, especially as students reach middle school. Describes how the author uses think-alouds as one particular technique to actively give contextualized strategic knowledge over to students. Shows how this helps readers overcome their struggles to develop greater capacities and tastes. (SR)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Strategies, Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: When Readers Struggle.