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Motivating Teens to Read

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By Dina Santorelli

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  • Wanda Jennings, Lake Elsinore, CA 01/22/08

    Our teachers would be thrilled if their students read a lot! Don't confiscate, negotiate! Your students should read texts for a set amount of pages daily. After that, free reading.
  • Trish L. 08/16/07

    My two teens will read anything that’s not for school. They are great, voracious readers! So I am at my wits end. The teachers are agitating for me to confiscate all the other books, magazines, and online material they download. But how can I?
  • Jack Jones 08/15/07

    We read to our kids from the minute they were born and every night we still share a “reading hour” as a family. This probably sounds pretty old fashioned. But my daughter is great at doing voices for different characters and my son thinks it’s a hoot to do a running commentary on the material, as though we were a newscaster. Whatever, it works!
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