Anne Whitney, Thesis Supervisor Anne Whitney, Thesis Honors Advisor Michelle Renee Knotts, Faculty Reader
Keywords:
Education Reading Secondary Education English
Abstract:
This teacher inquiry explores how classroom practice impacts the reading experiences of students. By implementing three instructional strategies (choice, sharing, and teacher modeling), I consider how I can develop a reading community in my classroom. This research is relevant to teachers of English Language Arts as they design reading instruction in their own classes. As I incorporated these strategies, I recorded my experiences and collected data relevant to this study. Afterwards, I systematically analyzed this data and discovered that students’ reading experiences are complex, diverse, and dependent on a range of factors.