Motives for Reading
The way we teach students to read in schools is valuable, to be sure, but may be radically different from what readers do with books when they choose to read them on their own.
For those students for whom reading in school is a struggle, their displeasure may block them from picking up books in their everyday life. In other words, we may be teaching them NOT to read even as we think we are teaching them how to rea
Different motives for reading require different strategies for reading.