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Encouraging Recreational Reading in the Elementary Grades.
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Blaisdell, Pat; De Young, Jennifer; Hutchinson, Sandy; Pedersen, Susan – 1999
This report describes a program encouraging students to choose reading as a recreational activity. The targeted population consisted of first, second, third, and fourth grade students in a growing middle class community, near a large Midwestern city. The problem of students choosing recreational activities other than reading was documented through…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Parent Participation