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Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
by Jim Cope
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| Grades | 8 – 12 |
| Type | Journal |
| Published | March 1997 |
| Publisher |  |
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This article summarizes and explicates research on 272 twelfth-grade students' reading autobiographies. Cope quotes from some noteworthy comments and makes some suggestions on how teachers and schools might do a better job of teaching literature.
Cope, Jim. "Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading." English Journal 86.3 (March 1997): 18-23
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