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Motivated to Engage: Learning from the Literacy Stories of Pre-Service Teachers
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MacPhee, Deborah; Sanden, Sherry – Reading Horizons, 2016
The influence of motivation on readers' behaviors has received wide attention in literacy scholarship. The importance of readers' motivations for reading becomes critical when considered in relation to readers' engagement with reading activities and their perceptions of themselves a competent. This article presents a qualitative study of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Reading Motivation, Reading
Enhancing Nonfiction Reading Comprehension through Online Book Discussions
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Thomas, Angela Falter – Reading Horizons, 2015
The introduction of Common Core State Standards has many middle grade school teachers concerned with implementing standards while retaining student reading engagement and motivation strategies. This study analyzes the effectiveness of providing social networking strategies in online book discussion groups on enhancing middle grade student reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Books, Electronic Publishing, Group Discussion
Café Culture: Promoting Empowerment and Pleasure in Adolescent Literacy Learning
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Mathers, Brandi Gribble; Stern, Amanda J. – Reading Horizons, 2012
The 160 third, seventh, and eleventh-graders involved in this study agreed, almost unanimously, that reading was "important." Participants cited the empowering benefits of reading as they justified this opinion. However, with regards to the enjoyment of reading, fewer middle and high school participants reported "liking"…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Student Empowerment, Grade 3
Students' Perceptions of "Fun" Suggest Possibilities for Literacy Learning: "You Can Be Entertained and Informed"
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Mathers, Brandi Gribble – Reading Horizons, 2008
Perhaps educators shy away from serious consideration of "fun" because the term is typically associated with the kinds of activities found on the playground rather than in the classroom. According to the first, third, and fifth-graders involved in this study however, different definitions of fun can be applied in different contexts and these…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5, Student Attitudes
Self-Efficacy: A Key to Literacy Learning.
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Scott, Jill E. – Reading Horizons, 1996
Argues that, to transform students into lifelong readers, teachers must conceive a plan to motivate students to develop positive attitudes about reading. Cites self-efficacy as particularly pertinent to motivation. Reviews the research on self-efficacy to examine which instructional strategies are most effective in literacy education. (PA)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy, Reading Attitudes
Increasing Students' Achievement and Interest in Reading.
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Moser, Gary P.; Morrison, Timothy G. – Reading Horizons, 1998
Reports a one-year study in a fourth-grade classroom to help students become able readers and instill in them a desire to read. States that the reading program included silent reading, choices of reading materials, sharing of literature, and appropriate adult modeling. Reports increases in reading rates, comprehension, vocabulary, and amount of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Literacy