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Taboada, Ana; Tonks, Stephen M.; Wigfield, Allan; Guthrie, John T. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
The authors examined how motivational and cognitive variables predict reading comprehension, and whether each predictor variable adds unique explanatory power when statistically controlling for the others. Fourth-grade students (N = 205) completed measures of reading comprehension in September and December of the same year, and measures of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Predictor Variables, Reading Motivation, Student Motivation
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Wigfield, Allan; Guthrie, John T.; Perencevich, Kathleen C.; Taboada, Ana; Klauda, Susan Lutz; McRae, Angela; Barbosa, Pedro – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
The engagement model of reading development suggests that instruction improves students' reading comprehension to the extent that it increases students' engagement processes in reading. We compared how Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) (support for cognitive and motivational processes in reading), strategy instruction (support for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
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Wang, Judy Huei-yu; Guthrie, John T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2004
This study examined the extent that motivational processes facilitate the comprehension of texts and the extent of culture's role in children's motivational processes of text comprehension. Relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, the amount of reading, past reading achievement, and text comprehension were examined by utilizing…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
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Lutz, Susan L.; Guthrie, John T.; Davis, Marcia H. – Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The authors used a new multidimensional coding scheme to assess student learning engagement during 3 Grade 4 reading lessons. Students in 3 classes--2 in which students received integrated reading-science instruction and 1 in which they received traditional instruction--demonstrated moderate to high engagement in learning. However, students in the…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies