ABSTRACT
Walk into any elementary school classroom during a reading lesson and the differences in student reading engagement are obvious. Some students are actively engaged in reading. They eagerly turn to their books when it is time to begin the lesson, and concentrate fully on them. They enjoy talking about what they are reading to their classmates and teachers. They use the different reading strategies they are learning to discover the meaning in the text. When the lesson is over, they reluctantly put their books away, eager to return to them at the first opportunity. When they have free time at other times during the school day they reach for a book and spend time reading.
