Great Valley Middle School

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Reading Habits: Reading Goals

Donalyn Miller, in her book Reading in the Wild, reports that lifelong readers exhibit basic characteristics or "habits". She has found these lifelong readers:

-Dedicate time to read
-Self-select reading material
-Share books and reading with other readers
-Have reading plans
-Show preferences for genres, authors, and topics.

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Motzer, Jennifer