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A Lifelong Reader
A lifelong reader is self-
motivated, finds value and
pleasure in reading, and
thus reads, learns, and
evolves throughout her/his
lifetime
Report on
Teaching Reading in
Europe
“It has been consistently shown that
those who read more are better
readers. With an increased amount
of reading, reading ability improves,
which in turn encourages more
reading”
(Cunningham and Stanovich, 1998)
The Goal
“And this is the goal: for
every child to become a
skilled, passionate, habitual,
critical reader—as novelist
Robertson Davies put it, to
learn how to make of
reading ‘a personal art’”
(Atwell, 2007: 12)
