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Direct linkRosene, Lily – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Lily Rosene began her teaching career in 2020 when COVID-19 derailed her career plans and anearby school was desperate for teachers. She entered her first 9th-grade English classroom without a clear understanding of her students or the curriculum. However, she knew reading was important to any English classroom, so she decided to make silent…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Grade 9, English Instruction
Deibler, Matthew Edwin – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the motivation and amotivation to read of 9th-12th grade adolescents in a large semi-urban high school in southwestern North Carolina. The principal theory guiding this study is Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 1991, 1994, 2000) as it explicates three universal human needs…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, High School Students, Self Determination, Reading Motivation
Peer reviewedSmith, Nichole; Day, Barbara – Educational Forum, 2013
A recent decline in reading has become a major issue, as Americans are not reading out of necessity or as a leisure activity. In addition, a connection has been found between children's leisure reading habits and their level of academic achievement, causing even more concern. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Recreational Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Habits
Pyne, Kimberly B. – Educational Leadership, 2012
The lobby of the college building echoes with the noise of teenagers milling around a table filled with books. Hands flutter over the bright covers, picking them up, flipping them over, thumbing through pages. Welcome to an Elon Academy Saturday at break time, the mid-point pause in this monthly gathering of the more than 70 student participants…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Secondary Education, College Readiness, First Generation College Students
Download full textMcCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
This document presents the proceedings of the 20th Annual Research Forum held June 25, 2015, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 21 action research papers: (1) History Lives! The Use of Simulations in a High School Social Studies Classroom (Lydia Adkins); (2) Using Francophone Music in the High…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Action Research, Simulation, Social Studies
