High School Matters: Fostering Readerly Identities through Choice Reading

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Choice reading fosters students' readerly identities and motivation in a high school setting. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.CONFIRMATORY. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Tracy Duvall

doi:10.58680/ej2025115216

November 1, 2025The English Journal

High School Matters: Fostering Readerly Identities through Choice Reading

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Key Points

The column explores how a teacher uses choice reading to help students develop their readerly identities.
Describes the implementation of a Free-Reading Friday routine
Highlights the motivational strategies used
Explains the impact on student engagement and identity formation
Students become more motivated to read
Improvement in students' feelings towards their reading identities
Observations of increased engagement during reading activities

Implication

A column examines a veteran teacher's choice reading approach to enhance student motivation and identity.

Abstract

This column examines one veteran teacher’s experience with choice reading and motivating her students to embrace their own identities through her Free-Reading Friday routine.

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Tracy Duvall (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69abc2dc5af8044f7a4ec5c7 https://doi.org/10.58680/ej2025115216

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