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The Imposter: A Motivational Strategy to Encourage Reading in Adolescents
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Curran, Michael J.; Smith, Elizabeth C. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2005
The Imposter is a strategy that encourages a focused approach to reading among adolescents. Contradictions or other types of conceptual flaws are inserted into a reading passage. The reader, knowing that flaws are hidden in the text, attempts to discover the errors. The reader then justifies his or her identification of flaws based on the concepts…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reading Strategies, Reading Motivation, Mathematics Instruction