Noted: Games, it seems, can motivate kids to read?and to read way above their level. This is what Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered. She asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers (one 11th-grade student read at a 6th-grade level) to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read?some as difficult as first-year-college language. The kids devoured them with no help and nearly perfect accuracy.
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