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Direct linkMarinak, Barbara A.; Gambrell, Linda B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
In an attempt to more clearly understand the erosion of motivation in some readers, a number of researchers (Mohr, 2006; Smith & Wilhelm, 2002) and organizations (The Education Alliance, 2007) have called for the investigation of gender differences in all readers, including young children. Consequently, this study focused on younger, average…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Reading Motivation, Reading Ability
Becker, Michael; McElvany, Nele; Kortenbruck, Marthe – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
The purpose in this study was to examine the longitudinal relationships of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation with reading literacy development. In particular, the authors (a) investigated reading amount as mediator between motivation and reading literacy and (b) probed for bidirectional relationships between reading motivation and reading…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Incentives, Reading Motivation, Grade 6
Kontovourki, Stavroula – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
This article examines the reading of leveled books and the assessment of students' reading levels in a public school classroom. The purpose of the research study was to examine how these processes of assessment, which often go unnoticed, shaped the ways reading and readers were defined. The research was located in a third grade, public school…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Grade 3, Reader Text Relationship, Difficulty Level
Marinak, Barbara A.; Gambrell, Linda B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
This study investigated the effects of reward proximity and choice of reward on the reading motivation of third-grade students as measured by indicators of task persistence. The major finding from this study was that students who were given a book as a reward and students who received no reward were more motivated to engage in subsequent reading…
Descriptors: Proximity, Persistence, Reading Motivation, Rewards
Guthrie, John T.; Wigfield, Allan; Barbosa, Pedro; Perencevich, Kathleen C.; Taboada, Ana; Davis, Marcia H.; Scafiddi, Nicole T.; Tonks, Stephen – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Based on an engagement perspective of reading development, we investigated the extent to which an instructional framework of combining motivation support and strategy instruction (Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction--CORI) influenced reading outcomes for third-grade children. In CORI, five motivational practices were integrated with six cognitive…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
Methe, Scott A.; Hintze, John M. – School Psychology Review, 2003
The purpose of this research was to implement and evaluate a classroom strategy to increase student engagement in sustained silent reading (SSR), a form of school-based recreational reading. Teacher modeling was selected as the primary intervention. A within-subjects ABAB withdrawal design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sustained Silent Reading, Recreational Reading, Grade 3
