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Encouraging Students to Read “Suggested Readings”

Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
Recommended readings supplemental to the required ? reading lists for a course usually consist of a one or two page handout. These are given to the students at the first class meeting and in too many cases are seldom referred to again. Obviously college professors feel additional readings related to the course will contribute to a student's under ...
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Encouraging boys to read

2016
PurposeTo examine the role of the school library in encouraging Key Stage Three (KS3) boys to read fiction and to consider why this is important. There is a long tradition of investigating boys’ reading habits but little research has been undertaken in a boys-only environment. The objectives were to undertake a case study of an independent boys' school
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Encouraging boys to read

Headteacher Update, 2013
For 40 years, the charity Beanstalk has been providing trained volunteers to help encourage primary school children to read. We asked volunteer Sally Floyer for some tips on engaging boys with reading
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Encouraging reading and collaboration using classroom salon

Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, 2010
Classroom Salon (CLS) is a special web based platform developed to encourage active reading and annotation activities. Using special highlighting and commenting tools in CLS, students indicate their understanding of concepts. CLS groups student annotations and provides a number of visualizations that can be used to understand group agreements and ...
Ananda Gunawardena, Aaron Tan, David Kaufer   +2 more
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A plan to encourage home reading

Peabody Journal of Education, 1923
(1923). A plan to encourage home reading. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 115-116.
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Reading allowed! (In fact, encouraged)

5 to 7 Educator, 2007
Liz Rhodes discusses the benefits and pleasures of reading out loud
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read in School: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines [PDF]

Journal of Human Resources, 2014
We show that a short-term (31-day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train teachers in their use, and to support teachers’ initial efforts for about a month, improves students’ reading skills by 0.13 standard deviations.
Ama Baafra Abeberese, Todd J. Kumler, Leigh L. Linden   +2 more
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College Libraries Encourage Reading

The Journal of Higher Education, 1941
N v vOWADAYS when we have the choice of thousands of volumes, including a representative selection of the great books in admirable series available at the price of a movie ticket, it is disconcerting to learn that reading in the average American home has been losing ground in its race with other leisure-time activities.
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Coweta Encourages 'Reading Olympians'

Georgia Library Quarterly, 2008
The article presents information on the 29th Summer Olympiad program of Coweta County Library in Georgia from August 8 to 23, 2008. The public library system has presented two multicultural programs to stimulate interest in cultural diversity, the Olympics and sportsmanship. Its objective of the program is to encourage students to read.
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ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO READ MATHEMATICS

PRIMUS, 2005
ABSTRACT It is generally agreed that the ability to read mathematics is an important skill—one that few of our students possess. A number of people have published some suggestions for helping students learn to read their mathematics textbooks. What these have in common is suggestions for getting students more active while reading. Using these resources
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