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Peer reviewedBoyd, Fenice B. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2002
Explores how the Cross-Aged Literacy Program supported the motivation and literacy learning of four low-achieving ninth-grade students. Suggests that participation in the preparation seminar and cross-aged literary discussion groups contributed to three key aspects of intrinsic motivation: perceived self-competence, autonomy, and relatedness. (SG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 9, Literacy
Peer reviewedOldfather, Penny – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2002
Offers an interpretive case study designed to provide insights about students' thoughts, feelings, and actions when not initially motivated for literacy tasks, and ways in which some students were able to become intrinsically interested. Reveals three different patterns of engagement (or lack thereof), represented in three different "Situations"…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Research, Grade 5, Grade 6
