Erin’s Reviews > No More Reading for Junk: Best Practices for Motivating Readers > Status Update
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Meet students where they are - work with existing passions or interests, and then branch out.
— Feb 06, 2018 08:39AM
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Erin
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Incorporate readers' suggestions when purchasing materials.
— Feb 06, 2018 08:44AM
Erin
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Encourage social reading, promote all kinds of print, promote reading for different reasons, encourage honest criticism of books, celebrate all reading (not just completion), and of course, offer choice.
— Feb 06, 2018 08:43AM
Erin
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Allow readers to make meaningful choices to increase their investment in the task: What will they read? Who will they read with? When will they read/what order? Where will they read?
— Feb 06, 2018 08:41AM
Erin
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Try to relate reading experiences to real life. Read the news, read websites, write letters, etc.
— Feb 06, 2018 08:41AM
Erin
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Any reward should be proximate to the desired behavior, should encourage more of it. Encourage reading by allowing kids to choose books for the school library, not by giving them an eraser.
— Feb 06, 2018 08:40AM
Erin
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Make reading relevant: make it related to an interest or allow for connection and communication afterward.
— Feb 06, 2018 08:38AM
