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Danica Donker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Elementary students' literacy skills are decreasing nationwide ("The Nation's Report Card," 2019). This is concerning because as literacy skills slip, the literacy demands for American workers are steadily increasing (OECD, 2013). Unfortunately, adding to the situation is the fact that students' attitudes towards reading are worsening…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Reading Motivation
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Unrau, Norman; Ragusa, Gisele; Bowers, Erica – Reading Psychology, 2015
This qualitative study focused on teacher's beliefs about students' motivation for reading and how teachers act on those beliefs in classrooms. After conducting five focus groups of teachers, researchers analyzed and interpreted transcripts to identify major themes. While instructional processes mediated the building of relationships between…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Student Motivation