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Luna, Michelle; Urbanski, AnneMarie; White, Susan – 2002
This research intended to describe interventions to enhance students' motivation to read for enjoyment. Students' personal reasons for reading may include curiosity, social involvements, emotional satisfaction and/or necessity. Other reasons for reading may include: sustained involvement; challenge; compliance; recognition; competition; and work…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Gehring, Tina; McGuire, Kathleen; Parr, Kirsten A.; Wiles, David – 2003
This report describes a program for increasing students' language arts skills by incorporating modeling and grade appropriate comprehension activities. The targeted population consisted of Kindergarten, 4th, and 6th grade students in a rural middle class community located in central Illinois. The problems with language arts skills were documented…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Arts
1997
This videotape generates enthusiasm by showing participants an overview of the goals and benefits of the Parents Sharing Books Program. It features parents, teachers, and principals who are involved in book-sharing programs in their schools. By watching the videotape, parents will see book-sharing strategies and motivational techniques and hear…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family Literacy, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Gilmore, Deanna Peterschick – 2001
Learning environments have an impact on acquiring skills in reading as well as developing positive attitudes toward reading. Another variable that affects attitudes and aptitude toward reading is the "climate" or "environment" in which children learn their skills. This paper concentrates on the phenomenon that is reaching epic proportions in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Kohn, Terry M. – 2002
Research into the reading preferences of boys and girls has shown that there is a difference between the two sexes regarding the type of literature they enjoy reading. These preferences begin at an early age and continue on throughout their school careers. The purpose of this study was to determine if high school teachers are aware of these…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Low Achievement, Reading Attitudes

Burgess, Stephen – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Tested assumption that variability in home literacy environments has no effect on individual differences in reading development. Found that variability in shared reading interactions was significantly related to growth in phonological awareness even after accounting for the effects of age, oral language, and phonological awareness at the beginning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Environment, Family Involvement, Individual Differences

Tanis, Robin S. – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Describes a high school summer reading program that was developed to encourage a lifelong habit of reading for pleasure by assembling a booklist of fiction and nonfiction titles, each sponsored by an administrator or teacher who then led a discussion of that book in the fall. (LRW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Fiction, Lifelong Learning
Donham van Deusen, Jean; Langhorne, Mary Jo – School Library Journal, 1997
Describes the Community Reading Month (CRM) initiative in Iowa City, Iowa; its goals are to promote the value of reading and to build a sense of community. Topics include the development of CRM, increased reading scores of Iowa City's elementary school students, activities for people of all ages, and planning and evaluation. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Elementary Education

Margolis, Howard; McCabe, Patrick P. – Special Services in the Schools, 1996
Using three complementary motivation theories, analyzes the difficulties of a student who had been termed a "resistant reader." Lists 12 questions, emanating from three theories, to guide the analysis of factors contributing to the child's avoidance of reading. Each question is accompanied by strategies to encourage reading. Labels the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness

Arzubiaga, Angela; Rueda, Robert; Monzo, Lilia – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2002
A study examined family influences on reading motivation in Latino children. Surveys and interviews with 18 Latino students in an urban southwestern elementary school and their parents indicated that as domestic workload increased, the value children placed on reading decreased. The more time families spent together and on religious literacy…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Abrahamson, Richard F.; Carter, Betty – Book Links, 1998
Provides a descriptive bibliography of titles that show the significant role books play in a young person's existence. Includes a letter excerpted from "Dear Author" magazine, from a 14-year old to "Charlotte's Web" author E.B. White telling how the book changed her life. (AEF)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Authors

Jewell, Terry A.; Pratt, Donna – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes how the authors have facilitated student-led literature discussions in their second- and third-grade classrooms. Outlines the basic organizational structure that fosters response-driven conversations about books. Illustrates the various ways students speak meaningfully with each other about the literature (including inferential…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 2, Grade 3

Guthrie, John T.; Anderson, Emily; Alao, Solomon; Rinehart, Jennifer – Elementary School Journal, 1999
Attempting to increase reading engagement, a collaborative team implemented a year-long integration of reading/language arts and science instruction known as Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI). Compared to traditionally organized instruction, the CORI context increased strategy use, conceptual learning, and text comprehension more than…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development

Meece, Judith L.; Miller, Samuel D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 1999
Uses an achievement-goal framework to examine changes in students' motivation for reading and writing (a longitudinal study involving 431 students in grades 3 through 5) and to evaluate a classroom-intervention project. Finds that, as teachers provided more opportunities for students to complete challenging, collaborative, and multiday…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5

Pelletier, Christine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1999
To encourage the students in her French class to read books in French, a teacher implemented a project involving literary journals. Students recorded their reflections on their reading, first of a novel chosen by the teacher, then of individually chosen novels. Appropriate evaluation of the journals posed a particular dilemma. (JLR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, French Literature, Grade 11