"Social Media and Young Adults." PewInternet. Lenhart, Amanda, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith, and Kathyrn Zickuhr. This alternative form will appeal to students because according to a recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center, nearly three quarters of the teens communicate through social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace (Lenhart). In this lesson students are given the opportunity to break away from the traditional book report form by creating Facebook-like pages for the main characters of fiction books. Eight years later Voukon questions why we are still assigning students, “the tried and true one-size-fits-all conflictaction-climax book report” that did not create enthusiasm for reading. Because the traditional book report ranked third in the students’ list of negative reading practices, Cope suggests that alternative assignments are needed. Cope discovered in his study of 272 Georgia high school seniors that most participants described unenthusiastically their reading experience in school.
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