Access to books in the home and adolescent engagement in recreational book reading: Considerations for secondary school educators

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Access to books in the home and adolescent engagement in recreational book reading: Considerations for secondary school educators

© 2015 National Association for the Teaching of English. The emphasis on schools' providing reading materials for students at home is very much on the primary school years, when the skill of reading is being acquired. Little consideration has been given to the impact of curtailing school-mediat...

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Main Author:	Merga, Margaret
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67155

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