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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Reading identity"”.
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Rural Voices: A Photographic Journey of the Intersection of Place and Reading Identity in Rural Adolescents
… have long been documenting the decline in reading habits of Americans, particularly adolescents and young adults. Reading for pleasure has been declining for the last three decades. Young people claim that reading is boring and irrelevant to their fast-paced, largely digital lives. In the …
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Boys Who Love Books: Avid Adolescent Male Readers in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom
… readers. This study explored: (1) how previous reading experiences influence the development of the avid adolescent male reader and (2) how the reading habits and preferences of avid adolescent male readers are socially constructed. Rosenblatt's (1978) Transactional Theory of Literary Work forms …
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
… What I am offering first and foremost is way of reading John Reed and the early(post)modernist disruptions of the New York historical avant-garde--a way of reading, part revisionist literary history and part popular culture criticism, which is appropriate to both Reed and to contemporary Cultural …
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"What if this really happened?" Using critical literacy practices and dystopian fiction to mediate self-efficacy with at-risk readers
… and feel inadequate to accomplish the complex reading tasks with which they are confronted in high school; therefore, they often will not even attempt to do the work (Bandura, 1986). Students who are assigned to a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) are at-risk not only due to the …