Developing Lifelong Reading Habits in Children
Greetings. The following materials are intended to provide an introduction to developing lifelong reading habits in children. They were assembled from the World Wide Web, ERIC Database, and a variety of other bibliographic resources. Instructions for acquiring the full text of the ERIC records are presented at the end of this file.

Sibel Tatar
Reference Specialist

Alphabetically arranged listing of bibliographies
Categorically arranged listing of bibliographies

Internet Sites
Reading Motivation Webquest
Teaching Children To Appreciate Literature. ERIC Digest
Motivation and Transfer in Language Learning. ERIC Digest.
Children's Literacy Development: Suggestions for Parent Involvement. ERIC Digest.
When Students Do Not Feel Motivated for Literacy Learning: How a Responsive Classroom Culture Helps
Motivating Low Performing Adolescent Readers
Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction: An Integrated Curriculum to Develop Motivations and Strategies for Reading
Reading Motivation

Citations from the ERIC Database
AN: EJ617783
AU: Danielson,-Kathy-Everts; Rogers,-Sheri-Everts
TI: You Can't Pass It On If You Don't Have It: Encouraging Lifelong Reading.
PY: 2000
SO: Reading-Horizons; v41 n1 p35-45 2000
DEM: Literature-Appreciation; Reading-Attitudes; Reading-Habits; Reading-Motivation; Recreational-Reading; Student-Motivation
DER: Elementary-Secondary-Education; Lifelong-Learning; Reading-Aloud-to-Others; Teacher-Behavior
AB: Notes that teachers need to demonstrate a love of reading in order to pass it on to their students. Discusses ways to encourage a love of reading through book groups, reading goals, daily oral and silent reading, and sharing the impact of reading with students. (SC)

AN: ED414562
TI: Building a Nation of Readers.
CS: Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Center for the Book.
PY: 1997
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED414562
DEM: Reading-Attitudes; Reading-Improvement; Reading-Programs; Recreational-Reading
DER: Elementary-Secondary-Education; Lifelong-Learning; Mass-Media-Use; Reading-Instruction; Reading-Motivation
AB: Inviting individuals and families, schools, libraries, educational, civic and government associations, labor unions, and others to join in building a nation of readers, this booklet lists ideas for organizing and supporting reading promotion projects that benefit all age groups. Ideas presented in the booklet include: teach someone to read; set family reading goals; give books and magazine subscriptions as gifts; use television and radio to encourage reading; encourage personal recommendations of books worth reading; plan a summer reading program; give awards for reading achievement; become a book fair organizer; form a reading promotion partnership with a local school; and give books as business gifts. The booklet also briefly describes the BOOK IT! National Reading Incentive Program, sponsored by Pizza Hut, Inc. (RS)

AN: EJ501086
AU: Vaughn,-Vicki
TI: Creating Lifetime Readers: Tips for Teachers.
PY: 1994
SO: State-of-Reading; v1 n2 p15-19 Fall 1994
NT: Available from Texas State Reading Assn., Center for Professional Teacher Education, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019-0227.
DEM: Reading-Aloud-to-Others; Reading-Attitudes; Reading-Instruction
DER: Elementary-Education; Independent-Reading; Lifelong-Learning; Reading-Habits; Student-Attitudes
AB: Outlines several ways to teach children to want to read, including surrounding them with books, becoming a role model, reading aloud to students, providing time for pleasure reading, and reading during reading time. (SR)

AN: ED448467
AU: Sanacore,-Joseph
TI: Struggling Literacy Learners Benefit from Lifetime Literacy Efforts.
PY: 2000
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC02 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED448467
DEM: Lifelong-Learning; Reading-Attitudes; Reading-Habits; Reading-Material-Selection; Scaffolding-Teaching-Technique; Student-Attitudes
DER: Elementary-Education; Reading-Difficulties; Reading-Materials
AB: Developing the lifelong love of reading requires lifetime literacy efforts. Teachers and administrators who support these efforts view the language arts from a "big-picture" perspective but realize that they must act in specific ways. Determining students' attitudes toward reading, giving them experiences with different texts, providing them with opportunities to select resources and to read them in school, and helping them to connect skills and strategies to interesting and meaningful contexts are only a few of the ways that support the lifetime reading habit. Although these activities are beneficial for all developing readers, those who struggle with literacy profit from the extra support of "scaffolding." Scaffolding, however, should not be isolated or reductionistic; instead, it should represent the same instructional direction that is intended for non-disabled learners. (Contains 55 references.) (RS)

AN: EJ616139
AU: Lee-Daniels,-Sonya-L.; Murray,-Bruce-A.
TI: DEAR Me: What Does It Take To Get Children Reading?
PY: 2000
SO: Reading-Teacher; v54 n2 p154-55 Oct 2000
DEM: Reading-Motivation; Sustained-Silent-Reading
DER: Class-Activities; Grade-2; Primary-Education; Reading-Attitudes; Student-Attitudes; Student-Motivation
AB: Describes the author's voluntary reading program in her second-grade classroom. Describes how her basic Drop Everything and Read program needed to be added to and tinkered with to keep students interested and motivated: paired reading and discussion, visual reading records, and praise and occasional rewards. (SR)

AN: EJ615772
AU: Calkins,-Lucy
TI: Let the Words Work Their Magic.
PY: 2000
SO: Instructor-; v110 n3 p25-28 Oct 2000
DEM: Reading-Aloud-to-Others; Reading-Skills
DER: Elementary-Education; Elementary-School-Students; Reading-Instruction; Reading-Motivation
AB: The most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children at home and in the classroom. At school, reading aloud is important for starting the day, presenting reading and writing mini-lessons, supporting social studies and science curricula, supporting whole-class book studies, and helping children talk and think about texts. (SM)

AN: EJ607383
AU: Segel,-Elizabeth
TI: The Roots of Reading.
PY: 2000
SO: Instructor-; v109 n8 p26-27 May-Jun 2000
DEM: Literacy-Education; Parent-Participation; Preschool-Children; Reading-Instruction; Reading-Motivation; School-Community-Programs
DER: Community-Involvement; Partnerships-in-Education; Poverty-; Preschool-Education; Reading-Habits
AB: School-community partnership programs can help teachers reach children in the crucial years from birth to 4, thereby preventing reading difficulties and raising future test scores. Many organizations help families in starting their children on the road to lifetime reading by distributing free books and pamphlets on reading aloud to children. (SM)

AN: EJ598915
AU: Sanacore,-Joseph
TI: Promoting the Lifetime Reading Habit in Middle School Students.
PY: 2000
SO: Clearing-House; v73 n3 p157-61 Jan-Feb 2000
DEM: Middle-School-Students; Reading-Attitudes; Reading-Improvement; Reading-Instruction; Student-Attitudes
DER: Instructional-Effectiveness; Lifelong-Learning; Middle-Schools; Reading-Aloud-to-Others
AB: Argues for the fundamental importance of fostering a lifetime reading habit in middle school students. Discusses various ways to provide opportunities to read in middle school; describes teacher demonstrations of effective reading/thinking behaviors; discusses reading aloud; and notes the importance of literacy educators advocating this kind of whole learning with parents, the media, and the public. (SR)

AN: ED436716
AU: Richardson,-Judy-S.
TI: Read It Aloud! Using Literature in the Secondary Content Classroom.
CS: International Reading Association, Newark, DE.
PY: 2000
AV: Order Department, International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Road, P.O. Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139 (Order no. 256-553, $16.95). Website: .
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC05 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED436716
DEM: Content-Area-Reading; Reading-Aloud-to-Others
DER: Classroom-Techniques; High-Schools; Middle-Schools; Reading-Motivation
AB: This book shows middle school and high school classroom teachers how read-aloud excerpts from a variety of genres can be used in the content areas. The book aims to promote students' motivation to read and further study. It offers teaching ideas for special populations such as adult beginning readers and readers with disabilities. The book includes principles for selecting, locating, and using read-alouds. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction of the content area and its focus, after which three or four read-aloud and read-along selections are presented in detail, followed by some abbreviated selections. The eight chapters in the book are: (1) "Why Read Aloud?" (2) "Read-Alouds for Science"; (3) "Read-Alouds for Mathematics and Geography"; (4) "Read-Alouds for Social Studies"; (5) "Read-Alouds for English and Language Arts"; (6) "Read-Alouds for Music, Art, and Health/Physical Education"; (7) "Read-Alouds for Second Language Learners"; and (8) "Read-Alouds for Special Populations." Appendixes contain content area book lists, a list of journal columns on read-alouds, and a 31-item reference list. (NKA)

AN: EJ562434
AU: Leal,-Dorothy-J.; Kearney,-Michael-K.
TI: What's So Magical about Those Magic School Bus Books? Textual Encounters of Another Kind.
PY: 1997
SO: Ohio-Reading-Teacher; v31 n3 p62-66 Sum 1997
DEM: Literary-Genres; Reading-Materials; Reading-Motivation
DER: Elementary-Education; Lifelong-Learning; Reader-Text-Relationship; Reading-Interests
AB: Suggests that the increasingly popular genre of informational storybooks can "turn students on" to independent learning from text. Notes that these storybooks, such as the Magic School Bus books, present and explain a nonfiction topic in a storybook format. Poses four questions as a framework for examining some of the key issues that have applications for today's classrooms. (RS)

AN: ED403256
AU: Wilhelm,-Jeffrey-D.
TI: "You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents.
PY: 1997
AV: Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 (hardcover: ISBN-0-8077-3567-1; paperback: ISBN-0-8077-3566-3).
NT: Foreword by Michael W. Smith.
PR: Document Not Available from EDRS.
DEM: Reading-Attitudes; Reading-Instruction; Reading-Motivation; Reflective-Teaching; Teacher-Influence; Teaching-Methods
DER: Case-Studies; Elementary-School-Students; Intermediate-Grades; Junior-High-School-Students; Junior-High-Schools; Middle-Schools; Role-Playing
AB: The stories and studies that make up this book pursue two intertwining paths of inquiry: (1) how highly engaged adolescent readers produce meaning; and (2) what can be done in the classroom to help reluctant readers perceive reading as a creative and personally meaningful pursuit. Chapter 1 looks at approaches to teaching reading and discusses an interactive model which can lead to a reading-centered classroom. Chapter 2 explores the role of reading in students' lives, focusing on three avid student readers and how the experiences of these students could help more reluctant readers. Chapter 3 looks at types of student reading activity, including literary letters, thinking aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation, and describes 10 different dimensions students used as they created, experienced,and responded to literary works. Chapter 4 explores using drama to promote reading and help less proficient readers; chapter 5 looks at the importance of visualization in reading. Chapter 6 stresses the need to expand concepts of reading, response, and literature. Appendices include: (1) "Questions and Activities for the Ten Dimensions of Reader Response"; and (2) "Revolving Role Drama Lesson Plans for 'The Incredible Journey.'" (Contains 110 references.) (ND)

AN: EJ617754
AU: Thomas,-Cheryl
TI: From Engagement to Celebration: A Framework for Passionate Reading.
PY: 2000
SO: Voices-from-the-Middle; v8 n2 p16-25 Dec 2000
NT: Theme: Passionate Teaching, Passionate Reading.
DEM: Adolescent-Literature; Individual-Development; Instructional-Improvement; Reader-Text-Relationship; Reading-Instruction
DER: Middle-Schools; Reader-Response
AB: Discusses how connecting students to reading requires more than just an energetic approach. Presents a framework for reading experiences: engagement, exploration, collaboration, and individual celebration. Describes a program that gives students varied opportunities to become engaged in literature, choice in what they read, time to actually read, and chances to share their insights and discoveries. (SC)

AN: ED414562
TI: Building a Nation of Readers.
CS: Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Center for the Book.
PY: 1997
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED414562
DEM: Reading-Attitudes; Reading-Improvement; Reading-Programs; Recreational-Reading
DER: Elementary-Secondary-Education; Lifelong-Learning; Mass-Media-Use; Reading-Instruction; Reading-Motivation
AB: Inviting individuals and families, schools, libraries, educational, civic and government associations, labor unions, and others to join in building a nation of readers, this booklet lists ideas for organizing and supporting reading promotion projects that benefit all age groups. Ideas presented in the booklet include: teach someone to read; set family reading goals; give books and magazine subscriptions as gifts; use television and radio to encourage reading; encourage personal recommendations of books worth reading; plan a summer reading program; give awards for reading achievement; become a book fair organizer; form a reading promotion partnership with a local school; and give books as business gifts. The booklet also briefly describes the BOOK IT! National Reading Incentive Program, sponsored by Pizza Hut, Inc. (RS)

Celebrate Literacy! The Joy Of Reading And Writing
"Turn your elementary school into a reading-and-writing carnival! Includes literacy slumber parties and ""battles of the books,"" among the fifty nifty ideas that many teacher hasve contributed to this wonderful collection"

Other Resources (available either for sale or via interlibrary loan)
Title: At-home activities for reading, language arts, and social studies : over 100 activities to increase children's love of learning
Authors: Robyn Freedman Spizman & Marianne Daniels Garber
Year: 1994
Publisher: Torrance, CA : Good Apple.

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