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Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading

by Jim Cope

Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Grades
8 - 12
Type
Journal
Published
March 1997
Publisher
NCTE

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Description

This article summarizes and explicates research on 272 twelfth-grade students' reading autobiographies. Cope quotes from some noteworthy comments and makes some suggestions on how teachers and schools might do a better job of teaching literature.

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