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Tsikalas, Kallen E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Struggling adolescent readers are distinct from others in two important ways: (1) They are "adolescents"; and (2) they have a "history" of struggle with reading. Good pedagogy prescribes that effective programs "meet students where they are." For middle-school students, this means meeting them in adolescence.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Modeling (Psychology), Questioning Techniques, Reading Motivation
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Margolis, Howard; McCabe, Patrick P. – Reading Psychology, 2006
Many schools mandate that teachers use scripted lessons and specific reading programs. To minimize the many problems that such instructional inflexibility can create for struggling readers, this article describes five principles of motivation and shows how teachers can apply these principles with struggling readers within the framework of mandated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction