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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
