Reading unbound
Subtitle: why kids need to read what they want-and why we should let them
By: Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith with Sharon Fransen
Contributors: Smith, Michael W. (Michael William), 1954- author; Fransen, Sharon, author
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780545147804
Subjects: Books and reading; Junior high school students; Reading (Secondary)
Description: Explores the reading habits of teens and how educators can learn how to teach reading from the choices that young readers make for themselves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192).
Table of contents: title: PART 1: THE NATURE AND VARIETY OF READING PLEASURES; title: The importance of reading for pleasure; title: Reading pleasure: Taking a closer look; title: Play pleasure: "I just get this joy reading"; title: Work pleasure: "This is it!"; title: Intellectual pleasure: "It's like being a detective almost"; title: Social pleasure: "All my friends were telling me I had to read this"; title: PART 2: THE PARTICULAR PLEASURES OF POPULAR GENRES; title: Readers of the heart: Getting carried away by romances; title: The lure of immortality: Going batty for vampire novels; title: The call of horror: Containing what's in the dark shadows; title: Thinking the unthinkable: Looking for answers in dystopian fiction; title: The Harry Potter phenomenon: The power of imagination; title: Where do we go from here?