STIMULATING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS TO READ

Elisa FreitasJéssica MartinsLuise Soares

Reading Beneficts

• The role of the reader

• Intellectual benefits

• Pleasant activity

The Role of the Family

• Family: the first reference in children's life

• Natural curiosity

• Interaction with reading material leads to language

operating skills

The Role of the Family

• Five main thing influence children's reading in a

household

• The importance of setting the example

• Reading should be a spontaneous process

The Role of the Family

• Possible approach: dialogic reading (HAY)

• How does it go?

• What are its benefits?

The Role of the School

• Schools may unintentionally cause children's lack of

interest in reading

• reading as an obligation

• texts too far from their reality

The Role of the School

• activities don't favor aesthetical and pleasant value

• students should read what's of their interest

• Reading stimulation in a pleasant way

Motivating Adolescents

• many factors discourage adolescents of reading

– lack of stimulation in their early years

– the reading habit is more difficult to acquire with passing time

• they are exposed to unstimulating texts

Motivating Adolescents

• wrong concepts about the reading habit

• understandable x simplified language

• media integration

• reading habit as a social aspect

Conclusion

• Encouraging reading habits is a task to be performed by family in conjunction with school. If that is done, children and adolescents will develop their intellect and become conscious individuals, capable of thinking by themselves, exerting creativity and reflecting about the world we live in.

References

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• HAY, Ian FIELDING-BARSLEY, Ruth. Facilitating children's emergent literacy using shared reading: A comparison of two models. Australian Journal of Language & Literacy, Vol. 30 Issue 3, Oct. 2007. <http://content.epnet.com.ez27.periodicos.capes.gov.br/pdf19_22/pdf/2007/3J3/01Oct07/26650221.pdf?T=P&P=AN&K=26650221&EbscoContent=dGJyMNLe80SeprQ4zdnyOLCmr0meprdSr624Sa%2BWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGrtlGuq7FJuePfgeyx%2BEu3q64A&D=aph>. Accessed on October 4th, 2011.

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