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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ784865 |
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- Reading Motivation Through Competition: Boys as Readers Gustafson, Chris Reading Motivation Competition Males Reading Achievement Reading Instruction Gender Differences Student Participation Just before the start of school in 2006, the author discovered that boys' scores trailed girls' across every grade and in every racial subgroup at her school. In this article, she describes her efforts to increase boys' participation in her annual reading promotion activity by incorporating an element of competition and tracking weekly reading total with a graph posted in a public area.