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Direct linkStevens, Nancy – Reading Horizons, 2016
While the advantages of reading workshops are well known (Atwell, 1998), there is currently a debate among scholars, practitioners, and politicians about the use of instructional/independent level texts in light of the Common Core Standards' end-of-year requirement for students to be reading at grade level (National Governors Association Center…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Suburban Schools, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
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
Huang, SuHua – Reading Horizons, 2012
The mixed-method explanatory research design was employed to investigate the effectiveness of the Accelerated Reader (AR) program on middle school students' reading achievement and motivation. A total of 211 sixth to eighth-grade students provided quantitative data by completing an AR Survey. Thirty of the 211 students were randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Acceleration (Education), Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students
Peer reviewedKragler, Sherry; Nolley, Christine – Reading Horizons, 1996
Investigates book selection strategies of fourth graders involved in a literature-based reading program. Examines types of information that guided the students' selections. Finds that the program was a motivating factor for students because their attitudes toward reading improved. Notes that to maximize reading growth, students should be reading…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reading Attitudes, Reading Material Selection, Reading Motivation
Peer reviewedMoser, 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
