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Assessing Motivation to Read: The Motivation to Read Profile-Revised
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Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Marinak, Barbara A.; Gambrell, Linda B.; Mazzoni, Susan A. – Reading Teacher, 2014
For most classroom teachers, recognizing when students are engaged in literacy activities--and perhaps more glaringly, when they are not--is a process that is key to evaluating the potential success of the instruction being offered. Students who are engaged have their eyes on what they are doing, are ardently attending to the teacher's read aloud…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education, Student Motivation
Me and My Reading Profile: A Tool for Assessing Early Reading Motivation
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Marinak, Barbara A.; Malloy, Jacquelynn B.; Gambrell, Linda B.; Mazzoni, Susan A. – Reading Teacher, 2015
Research indicates that motivation plays a central role in literacy development. Recent investigations have revealed that reading motivation begins to erode as early as second grade. Therefore, it can be suggested that motivation must be carefully considered during early literacy instruction. However, such motivating instruction can be effectively…
Descriptors: Profiles, Reading Motivation, Emergent Literacy, Motivation Techniques
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Gambrell, Linda B. – Reading Teacher, 2011
Noted scholar, teacher educator, and IRA past-president Linda Gambrell answers readers' questions about motivating young and struggling readers.
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Student Motivation
Assessing Motivation to Read.
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Gambrell, Linda B.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes the Motivation to Read Profile (MRP), which assesses children's self-concepts as readers and the value they see in reading. Discusses its development and offers suggestions for its use with elementary students. Includes the MRP. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measures (Individuals), Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation
A Cross-Cultural Perspective of Early Literacy Motivation.
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Mazzoni, Susan Anders; Gambrell, Linda B.; Korkeamaki, Riita-Liisa – Reading Psychology, 1999
Examines changes in first- and second-graders' reading motivation across the course of a school year in the United States and Finland. Explores possible developmental patterns in early reading motivation that operate universally across cultural contexts. Finds that in both countries first-graders' reading motivation increased significantly across…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Elementary Students' Motivation to Read. Reading Research Report No. 52.
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Gambrell, Linda B.; And Others – 1996
This study explored 330 third- and fifth-grade Maryland students' motivation to read using the Motivation to Read Profile (MRP). The first part of the MRP, a Likert-type, self-report, group-administered questionnaire, was completed by all students. The second part of the MRP, the Conversational Interview, was individually administered to a random…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Family Influence, Grade 3
Emergent Literacy: What Research Reveals about Learning To Read.
Gambrell, Linda B.; Mazzoni, Susan Anders – 1999
Noting that the questions of when and how to teach beginning reading are among the most controversial in early childhood education, this chapter examines how young children develop as readers. The chapter begins with a focus on the emergent literacy perspective for the insights it provides into young children's reading and writing development. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Emergent Literacy