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- Title
Encouraging independent reading with ambience: The Book Bistro in middle and secondary school classes.
- Authors
Kasten, Wendy C.; Wilfong, Lori G.
- Abstract
The article examines how providing an informal setting for school students can encourage them to discuss self-selected reading materials and promotes reading and interaction among adolescent students. The author explains how teachers devised and implemented a "book bistro" that mimicked the atmosphere of bookstores that contained coffee shops. One of the goals of the program was to improve the current computerized independent reading system and develop a program that would create life-long readers. It is noted that the program would also need to be accountable, making sure students actually read the books, while remaining manageable for teachers to accurately monitor a each student's reading. The results of an action study undertaken to create a guide for the program is discussed.
- Subjects
BOOKS &; reading; READING interests; READING interests of students; READING interests of teachers; INDEPENDENT reading; INDEPENDENT study; READING exercises; DISCUSSION in education; CURRICULUM; PLACE-based education; EDUCATIONAL objectives
- Publication
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2005, Vol 48, Issue 8, p656
- ISSN
1081-3004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/JAAL.48.8.3