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Poetry. Moodle. It's Good Reader Boy! 3:30 Weekdays... I’ve wanted to come up with a clever way for students to remember their thinking for reading strategies.

It's Good Reader Boy! 3:30 Weekdays...

A list just seems too boring. One thing I’ve learned in BrainSMART is to connect information to parts of the body to make it more memorable. So I came up with this Good Reader Boy poster! The poster connects like this: Middle school boys who are reluctant readers value reading more after using e-readers. Public release date: 27-Mar-2012 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Margaret Allenmallen@smu.edu 214-768-7664Southern Methodist University Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to a new study.

Middle school boys who are reluctant readers value reading more after using e-readers

The findings come from a study of 199 middle school students who struggle with reading and who participated in a reading improvement class that included Amazon's Kindle e-reader, said one of the study's authors, Dara Williams-Rossi, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.