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Direct linkSamira Syal; Marcia Davis; Xiaodong Zhang; Jason Schoeneberger; Samantha Spinney; Douglas J. Mac Iver; Martha Mac Iver – Reading Psychology, 2024
Motivation to read is crucial to improving reading skill. While there is extensive research examining reading motivation among elementary students, with respect to adolescents, research is limited. Employing a person-centered approach can aid in developing a better understanding of adolescent reading motivation and would help address possible…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Adolescents, Reading Achievement, High School Students
Download full textSamira Syal; Marcia Davis; Xiaodong Zhang; Jason Schoeneberger; Samantha Spinney; Douglas J. Mac Iver; Martha Mac Iver – Grantee Submission, 2023
Motivation to read is crucial to improving reading skill. While there is extensive research examining reading motivation among elementary students, with respect to adolescents, research is limited. Employing a person-centered approach can aid in developing a better understanding of adolescent reading motivation and would help address possible…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Adolescents, Reading Achievement, High School Students
Jason Schoeneberger; Xiaodong Zhang; Samantha Spinney; Jing Sun; Lauren Kennedy; Samira Rajesh Syal – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand the impact, implementation and costs associated with a one-semester elective lab course in 9th grade, Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA) Lab, which seeks to improve students' reading achievement, particularly for those from economically disadvantaged communities. This study used three cohorts…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Learning Laboratories, Reading Centers
Quirk, Matthew; Swami, Sruthi; Loera, Gustavo; Garcia, Sergio – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
Reading motivation may help explain some discrepancies in higher education attainment among Latinx adolescents. Using a person-centered approach to understand underlying reading motivation profiles among N = 254 Latinx adolescents, results identified four ordered classes of reading motivation including, (a) a "High" class characterized…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Adolescents, Reading Motivation, Academic Aspiration
Gallagher, Kelly – Educational Leadership, 2010
The "elephant in the room" when we talk about preparing critical thinkers for the 21st century, Gallagher believes, is U.S. students' lack of reading proficiency and their general disinclination to read. Gallagher's provocative argument is that a significant factor behind the decline of reading in young people is a set of practices…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Low Achievement
Whelan, Debra Lau – School Library Journal, 2007
This article presents Alan Sitomer, an English teacher at Lynwood High School, and how he teaches his students classic literature through hip-hop. These at-risk students attend a severely overcrowded, low-performing school in East Los Angeles that's surrounded by what Sitomer describes as "gangs, guns, and drugs." Prostitutes work the…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), High Risk Students, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Guzzetti, Barbara J., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Living in an age of communication, literacy is an extremely integral part of our society. We are impacted by literature during our infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. "Literacy for the New Millennium" includes information from specialists in the field who discuss the influence of popular culture, media, and technology on…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Young Adults, Adolescents, Literacy Education
