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Cantrell, Susan Chambers; Rintamaa, Margaret – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
The authors examined the dimensions of reading engagement for rural ninth-grade students who participated in a supplemental literacy intervention for students who struggled with school-based reading. Using a comparative case study approach, researchers investigated the ways in which engagement was characterized and undermined within the context of…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, Learner Engagement, Grade 9
Conner, Jennifer M.; Farr, Roger – Principal, 2009
When readers don't know their purpose for reading, they lack the fundamental information needed in order to make decisions about how to approach the text and how to interpret information. This makes the already challenging task of navigating content-area texts more difficult, particularly for middle school readers who are relatively new to…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Reader Text Relationship