Allowing students to choose their own reading can help students to become better readers. Students have their own interests with reading, and by allowing those students to choose the stories that they want to read, you can help foster that wish to read.
This may be a difficult thing to add into my chemistry class, but I may be able to have the students pick a newspaper or magazine of their choice (as long as it applies) and have them search for new technologies in science. These articles do not have to be about chemistry per say, but it would be good if the article was about science. I can remember being allowed to read in some of my English classes and also in one of my history classes. We had to find current events in a newspaper and bring them in to talk about. By the end of the year I was searching for one of the most exclusive articles because I didn't want anyone to have the same one as I did. By giving the students the freedom to read what they want it may create a positive environment for students to read and write.
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