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A Survey Of What Makes Students Want To Read In Middle School

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What Makes a reader? This Question has been in my head for as long as I can remember. However, the question I want to answer is not what makes a “good” reader in response to any and all strategies taught to most students in the US in order to help the student understand what it is he/she is reading. The question is and will remain “What makes a reader?”. As in what experiences causes a student to choose a book instead of playing a video game or in some cases with younger students a coloring book or even the reverse what causes the student to choose the video game instead of the book. What past experiences causes he or she to want to read? And what inside and outside conflicts have the same effect? Throughout my research, which consists …show more content…

“"Just Plain Reading": A Survey Of What Makes Students Want To Read In Middle School” touches base on three main questions. What do students value most in their reading and language arts classes? What do students say motivates them to read? How does their middle school classrooms respond to these need? This article surveys 1,700 students across the United States. This article is probably the fairest study on my list because the experiment cast such a wide net. As said before the study surveys over 1,700 students across the US and does not segregate upper or lower classes. Several schools were across the US at random. This study shows how the students think of their classes and how their schools help them to develop their skills in reading and English. I think it's great to see studies like these. It allows us to have a perspective on what the students think which is often overlooked and thought to be extremely biased having that student will always blaming the adult for what they're doing wrong. Which, in my experience, the students are usually truthful, not because they want the problem to be fixed but rather young students tend to not hold anything back. And it's this self-confidence that makes young students the most unbiased survey …show more content…

It talks about broadening their view and not just a nonfiction or fiction option. Again this all goes to what the students don't know. The students may know that they are reading a scary book but some of them have no idea that there are entire genres devoted to horror or thriller. Specific genes are not being taught in lower grade levels by name. In my interviews, i spoke to a girl who was in the 4th grade and didn't know what genre she likes. The only way I could get an actual answer was by asking her to name movies she likes. How is it that a student knows genre by movies but is unaware of what they are in

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In the spring of 2015, Katie Dickerson, an 11th grade English teacher, published an article to Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, titled “Reimagining Reading: Creating a Classroom Culture that Embraces Independent Choice Reading”. The article discusses the strategies she used to better engage her students in reading more on their own and in class. Throughout a two-year mark, she collected data during the schoolyear and at the end, gave students a questionnaire of how they felt towards these Today’s schools are seeing more children lacking an interest in reading, which is crucial to their intellectual development. In this article, Katie Dickerson noted that “reading… (leads to) the establishment of future goals…, open-mindedness…, the ability to empathize with others, strong communication skills, and the ability to focus”. Furthermore, she stated that “People…are, by nature, lovers of stories.

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Throughout the 16-day project, students participated in a variety of reading-related activities. They learned how to access eBooks on different applications, took Accelerated Reader tests for books they had read, made art projects, worked puzzles, played games, listened to librarians read stories to them, and read books of their choice. On the last day of the program the reading STAR test and the 20-question reading attitude survey were given again. Unfortunately, the results were inconclusive. Some students didn’t take the pre-test while others only took the post-test because of attendance.

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Reading is an important aspect of a child’s life and it’s crucial to a student’s education and most students and parents neglect to see that reading will make a huge impact during their studies as a student. Rodriguez grew up in a family where reading was never done for fun, rather only when necessary. When he initiated school, he felt that reading was a chore, he also felt lonely and bored

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While reading is something used in everyday life the author of “Why Literature Matters” ; Dana Gioia discusses that this is not the case for modern young adults. Gioia builds the argument that the amount of reading is declining and such a change will bring negative consequences on American society. To sway the audience the author uses persuasive techniques such as diction, statistics, reports and world to reading

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(Cambria and Guthrie’s, 2010) research indicates that in order to motivate students to read we need to take in consideration their interest, dedication and confidence. “An interested student reads because he enjoys it; a dedicated student reads because he believes it is important, and a confident student reads because he can do it. ”(Cambria and Guthrie,

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Even though reading for school may be a pain, reading itself is a vital part of work, society, and life itself. In her article “Why Literature Matters,” Dana Giola details the dangerous lack of readers in American society as well as the positive effects reading has on others. She utilizes evidence from previous studies, strong reasoning, and strong language to best portray her message: reading is about more than a good story. Using of several previous statistics, polls, and articles, Giola is able to convince her audience that reading is vital to bettering society. She uses a survey from the National Endowment of the Arts saying that there is a shockingly low percentage of Americans, especially young adults, participating in the arts, and

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“Which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish”. (Marquez, 1) Marquez was very descriptive with the setting almost making it seem like you were there with the character. In “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses the power of imagery to help the reader picture the story. First, the story is about a family that manages to stumble across an old man.

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Many people have mixed opinions on required reading. Some may enjoy it while others tend to despise it. Required reading is normalized in today’s society, and many teachers assign novels for the whole class to read. If a student is uninterested in the novel, they won’t be as motivated to do work in school, so choosing the right book is important. It is necessary for students to be able to relate or find some sort of connection to the story or character being talked about.

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In today’s society, there is an immense amount of young adults and teenagers who don’t enjoy reading as much as teens from the eighties. This may be because of the increase in technology starting from the beginning of the twenty-first century, or just because people choose not to read. One of the most evident reasons to why teenagers in this century have to force themselves to read is because of all the other distractions and things they would rather be doing than sit in complete silence, reading a book. This isn’t a cause for celebration, or a statement implying that reading is only for educational purposes and not the enjoyment, because it isn’t.

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“the positive outcomes of reading included enjoyment, knowledge of the self and other people, social interaction, social and cultural capital, imagination, focus and flow, relaxation and mood regulation, as well as improvements in communication abilities and longer-term education outcomes.” (“The power of reading: how books help develop children’s empathy and boost their emotional development”). This statement talked about how the books that are prohibited are really enabling children to advance in school. This statement additionally discloses how kids associate with the books. " fiction causes us see how other individuals feel and think.

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While it may be true that even if a student is reading Sports Illustrated, they will still become more literate and reflective than if they hadn’t read at all, it is also true that the student is then less likely to read the same desired material outside of class because they are already being forced to read it inside of class. Moreover, if class time is spent reading something such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success, the student will be more inclined to read Sports Illustrated outside of class; thus, increasing their reading time altogether. On the report of Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students’ Motivation to Learn, “studies have shown that students who read outside of school become better readers (Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding, 1988; Fielding, 1994; Guthrie, Schafer, Wang, and Afflerbach, 1995)” (64). Therefore, by engaging in materials which the students may not be interested in during the school day, they will be more likely to read other subject matters outside of school and consequently increase their reading

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With fear mongering articles like Petri’s, the purpose has been missed. Common Core recommends fiction and nonfiction literature across multiple genres that pique the interest of even lackluster readers. In doing so, this will better prepare the upcoming generation for college or the job market. Ultimately, the technical material does not replace the English Literature selections. The texts recommended are beneficial to students and teachers alike, therefore, improvements in scores previously mentioned are expected to rise as expectations for students are also

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Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why is that so? Reading is one of the most beneficial and practical activities that a human being can do. Unfortunately it is a disappointment that people these days read less. As we know, books were the main source of entertainment centuries ago, but with the widespread of technological advances such as the cinema, television, internet, among others, many people left their books on the bookshelf. The purpose of this speech is to present the benefits and the importance of reading.

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