What Motivates Students To Read? Four Literacy Personalities.

Cole, Jill E.

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ERIC Number: EJ659053

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Publication Date: 2003

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What Motivates Students To Read? Four Literacy Personalities.

Cole, Jill E.

Reading Teacher, v56 n4 p326-36 Dec-Jan 2002-2003

Examines what motivates students to read by looking at four literacy personalities. Explores readers' beliefs, readers' reasons and purposes, and readers' affective reactions. Proposes that self-efficacy is important at the beginning of a literacy event. Provides some practical ideas for classroom teachers to discover students' literacy personalities. (PM)

Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Literacy, Primary Education, Reading Assignments, Reading Instruction, Reading Motivation, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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