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Creating Creating ReadersReaders
DDr r Susan La MarcaSusan La Marca
A print- rich environment leads to more A print- rich environment leads to more reading and free voluntary reading is reading and free voluntary reading is the best predictor of comprehension, the best predictor of comprehension, vocabulary growth, spelling and vocabulary growth, spelling and grammatical ability and writing style. grammatical ability and writing style.
Lonsdale, M. (2003) Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement: a Review of the Research p. 1.
Reading and school Reading and school achievementachievement
……reading for fun had a positive reading for fun had a positive relationship to average scores. At all relationship to average scores. At all three ages (9, 13, 17 years), students three ages (9, 13, 17 years), students who said they read for fun scored who said they read for fun scored higher than peers who said they never higher than peers who said they never read for fun. read for fun.
Campbell, J. R., Hombo, C. M., & Mazzeo, J. (2000) 1999 Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance
Reading and school achievement
Reading and school Reading and school achievementachievement
The results show how important it is not The results show how important it is not just to teach students to read but to just to teach students to read but to engageengage them in reading as part of their them in reading as part of their liveslives. .
OECD (2000) Reading for Change: Performance and Engagement Across Countries. Results form PISA 2000 p. 12.
The number of books a student has The number of books a student has access to correlates to the levels of access to correlates to the levels of achievement and engagement.achievement and engagement.
OECD (2000) Reading for Change: Performance and Engagement Across Countries. Results form PISA 2000
Reading and school Reading and school achievementachievement
Reading and school Reading and school achievementachievement
The time parents spend ‘communicating’ The time parents spend ‘communicating’ with students correlates to achievement with students correlates to achievement and engagement levels.and engagement levels.
OECD (2000) Reading for Change: Performance and Engagement Across Countries. Results form PISA 2000
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What can Families do?
Reading materials at homeReading materials at home
OECD (2000) Reading for Change: Performance and Engagement Across Countries. Results form PISA 2000
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Krashen, S. (2004) The Power of Reading, p. 57
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The research supports the The research supports the commonsense view that when books commonsense view that when books are readily available, when the print are readily available, when the print environment is enriched, more reading environment is enriched, more reading is done.is done.
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Public library (incl. sales)Public library (incl. sales)
Bookshops – new & secondhandBookshops – new & secondhand
Magazine subscriptionsMagazine subscriptions
Book borrowingBook borrowing
Audio booksAudio books
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See reading as relevant and important:
• turn off the television
• don’t always offer other options
Readers are made by readers.Readers are made by readers.
Aidan ChambersAidan Chambers
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Children learn about literature from what Children learn about literature from what the adultsthe adults around them do about it.around them do about it.
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Zahnleiter, 1985, p. 187
Reading aloudReading aloud
Knowledgeable adultsKnowledgeable adults
Role modelsRole models
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