Keywords
lifelong reading, inspiring readers, classroom reading, reading instruction, literature reading
Submission Type
Research
Preview
It's a real problem: to this day, I've loved every single book my English teachers have placed in my hands, falling in love with Ponyboy, cheering on Jonas when he snuck out of The Community, and crying through the pages where Billy lost both Old Dan and Little Ann.
But when I became an English teacher, I mentally braced myself that not all of my students would love reading as I do. The majority of my students consider themselves "non-readers" and they claim that the main culprit of this problem is that they are "required" to read books. I mustered up my courage to take a risk. Several of my colleagues had incorporated self-selected independent reading as part of their curriculum, so I jumped on the bandwagon.
Recommended Citation
Ashurst, Jessica
(2022)
"Lighting Fires: Inspiring Lifelong Reading,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 50, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol50/iss1/1