Emily Lee

What is Aliteracy?: Tells the basic definition of aliteracy and how it is found in our society. For example, students know more about computer games like SimCity than A Tale of Two Cities and how students watch Gettysberg, but as never read The Killer Angels it is based on. Discusses the Washington Post report No-book report: skim it and weep. Useful in a classroom because it defines the problem of literacy and explains with everyday examples ways it is found in students.

Aliteracy’s Implications: How America turns to other sources for information such as TV and computers. America is a society based on ruling by an informed public, but now people are choosing not to read and learn the issues at hand. In the classroom, this articles information could be used as an example of why to read, because students need to know about society to take their place in it.

Reading Engagement: What Influences the Choice to Read: The different reasons people are not motivated to read, such as not connecting to the story and ways to counteract this by encouraging reading in the classroom and in the home and giving students choices in reading.

Understanding and Encouraging a Reluctant Reader: Comprehending why students ignore reading such as peer pressure, struggles in deciding who they are and what they want to read. Different ways they can be encouraged to try and enjoy reading are to make books part of the lesson, introduce books you enjoy, and give choices. While this article is geared to the parent, the suggestions can be used in the classroom as well.

From Aesop to Zelda: Promoting Recreational Reading in the Nintendo Age: How to incorporate reading into technology students already enjoy using, like turning off automated reading and having the students read the game information. This is a way to slip reading into using computers, something students do in class anyway.

Everything Old is New Again: Retold Fairytales and Legends: Helps librarians to encourage students to read by giving ideals to promote reading such as later library hours and keeping comics and romances, because they do promote reading. I included this because I’m a library media major and hope to teach someday.

Godforsaken books: The lack of reading in America and the trouble promoting books. Because so few Americans are reading, it is difficult to promote books enough to have people pick them up and read them. Helps the teacher realized how much Americans are not reading and encourages promoting of popular novels, just so the students begin to read.

Pleasure in information seeking: Reducing information aliteracy: Starts off with a scary subject, how students can alter reports from the computer and never have to do a paper. Tells how students are reluctant to try research assignments because of not understanding how to begin. Gives teachers recommendations like allowing research time in class and making sure students understand how to gather and use the information they need.

Pupils hit the books-hard: Different ways schools have encouraged reading. Concentrating on middle school students, it sites different schools efforts to promote reading. Southern Middle School in Lothian, Maryland has twenty-five minutes of free reading, more time in writing journals and techniques to get more out of what they read. Loaded with ideals to use in a classroom

Hell’s Bibliophiles: Finding out why students don’t read as an important first step to teaching them to enjoy reading. The author remembers when he was just starting college and didn’t read enough and how an encounter with a stranger changed his reading habits. By having students write about when they did and did not like to read, he discovered the will to read and encouraged it. He also worked on issues the students had against reading. This article is very applicable, telling teachers to encourage students to remember liking to read and teaching them to enjoy it again.

The no-book report: skim it and weep: Percentages of Americans who read, examples of different reasons people don’t. There are so many different reasons and excuses, such as no time, and impatience for the instant information of the Internet. It gives recommendations such as acting out chapters and warns how alliterate students being parents of illerate children.