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Strategies to Increase Recreational Reading among Teens

Strategies to Increase Recreational Reading among Teens. Why is recreational reading important?. Young adults are reading fewer books. Reading is declining as an activity among teenagers. Teens and young adults spend less time reading than people in other age groups.

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Strategies to Increase Recreational Reading among Teens

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  1. Strategies to Increase Recreational Reading among Teens

  2. Why is recreational reading important? • Young adults are reading fewer books. • Reading is declining as an activity among teenagers. • Teens and young adults spend less time reading than people in other age groups. • Even when reading does occur, it competes with other media. This multi-tasking suggests less focused engagement with text. • American families are spending less on books that at almost any other time in the last two decades.

  3. Teens are reading less well. • Reading scores for 17-year olds are down.

  4. Reading forpleasure correlates strongly with academic achievement.

  5. Plenty of competition

  6. Buy the books teens want to read

  7. Sources • NJASL Presentations • Professional Magazines • ALA Lists • Garden State Teen Book Award Nominees • Student recommendations • Atlantis Subscriptions: http://www.atlantissubscriptions.com (buying service providing teen oriented paperbacks for libraries)

  8. Buying Strategies • We buy paperbacks • We purchase throughout the year • Try to always have some new fiction on display • When a book is read to tatters, we rebind

  9. Risky Business • Popular teen books often include honest portrayals of the challenges of the modern adolescent experience. • Self-censorship is the enemy.

  10. Titles for Girls • Gossip Girl • It Girl • A-List • Clique • Stephenie Meyer • Meg Cabot • Chicken Soup

  11. Titles for Boys • Cirque du Freak • Fight Club • The Rose That Grew from Concrete • Nonfiction

  12. African American Titles • Drama High Series • Bluford Series • Imani Series • True to the Game Trilogy • Omar Tyree – Flyy Girl Series • Souljah

  13. Science Fiction & Fantasy

  14. Problem Books • Go Ask Alice – Beatrice Sparks • A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer • The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky • Rhymes with Witches – Lauren Myracle

  15. Graphic Novels • Death Note • Fruits Basket • Fullmetal Alchemist • Bleach • Reborn • Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad

  16. Online Survey

  17. How We Promote • Display books facing out • Thematic book displays • AM announcements • Genre bookmarks tailored to our collection

  18. Student Magazine Suggestions

  19. Mixed Response(All ideas are not created equal!) • Teen Book club • Book Blog • Nonfiction graphic novels • Deptford Students Recommend…

  20. What We’re Trying Out Next • Slat wall displays on end caps • Genre book club • Teen Space to replace book blog • Somebody Checked Me Out • MP3 checkout

  21. RecReaders@PBWiki

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