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opportunities. Compared to motivated classmates, reluctant readers surrender into the
spiraling world of low exposure to text. The implications are grave. This lack of exposure
to text and the lack of fruitful reading practice on the part of...
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continue to show that one-fourth of grade school students do not read outside of school,
and the majority read only for a few minutes daily (National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP), 2007 as cited by Moats, 2009). “In a reanalysis of...
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Learning clubs (book clubs, literature circles) should be deliberate and
specifically aimed at desired learning goals. To effectively motivate reluctant readers,
teachers must help students experience autonomy in selecting interesting...