Honors Project

Students and Their Relationships with Reading

Educators often find that a majority of their students have a strong resistance to reading. The reasons for resistance vary from student to student, but, regardless of the underlying cause, such resistance puts a strain on classroom engagement. For decades, experts have considered this issue, supplying numerous potential solutions for educators to incorporate. As a literary review, this project studies those approaches, applies them to real-life classroom experiences, and offers additional tactics.

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