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Hebb, Judith L.; Axiotis, Vivian – English Journal, 2000
Offers practical suggestions for encouraging reluctant (and all) high school readers and writers. Advocates looking at student reluctance and motivation; understanding the process of reading; understanding that everyone learns differently; and that reading is a social act. Offers the response from a high school English teacher with a sampling with…
Descriptors: Class Activities, High School Students, High Schools, Literature Appreciation
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Corcoran, Carol A.; Davis, A. Dia – Reading Improvement, 2005
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a readers' theater fluency program. The participants were 12 students with learning disabilities in a combined second/third grade exceptional education classroom. Through the use of pre and post reading attitude surveys, field notes recorded by the observer, and pre and post oral fluency…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Grade 3, Special Education
Mori, Setsuko – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Although there is extensive research into what constitutes second language learning motivation and how it works, most of the existing work is carried out in ESL environments, and is mainly concerned with motivation to communicate using the target language. However, in EFL environments such as Japan, students have quite limited contact with target…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Second Language Learning, Reading Motivation, Learning Motivation
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Brenner, Devon; Apol, Laura – Journal of Children's Literature, 2006
This article looks closely at a subset of books about literacy in and out of school by analyzing images of children learning and struggling to learn to read in realistic fiction. There are several books in which characters wish to learn to read, worry about being poor readers, and work hard to learn to read. These books raise important questions…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Emergent Literacy, Fiction
Baumann, James F. – NRRC News: A Newsletter of the National Reading Research Center, 1995
A university reading educator exchanged jobs with an elementary school teacher for a full year of teaching and research in a second-grade classroom. The educator's perspective on teaching and learning literacy was based on the 3-part principle that immersion in a rich literate environment, explicit teacher instruction in literacy skills and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 2, Journal Writing, Literature Appreciation
Rosenheck, Donna; And Others – 1996
A study examined how Accelerated Reader Program (a computerized reading management program used in elementary education) affected attitudes toward reading and use of the media center. Fifth-grade students in three Lee County, Florida schools were surveyed. One school had no Accelerated Reader program in place; one school had a mandatory…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Rasinski, Timothy; Padak, Nancy – 1996
Offering instructional strategies in an informal, easy-to-read, yet scholarly approach, this book presents instructional strategies and activities for children who are having difficulty learning to read. In contrast to other books that offer highly analytic and prescriptive approaches, the activities in the book are arranged around general areas…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Parent Participation
Cone, Joan Kernan; And Others – 1996
Four essays consider aspects of ensuring that every child can succeed in school. The first, "Appearing Acts: Creating Readers in a High School English Class" (Joan Kernan Cone), explores the self-perceptions of students and uses them to inspire their enthusiasm for reading. The cultural sensitivity of the teacher is instrumental in…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, High Schools
Kane, Roberta S.; Warner, Dori – 1997
This action research project implemented a program for motivating students to read so that they would become enthusiastic, lifelong readers. The targeted population consisted of first- and second-grade students in a middle class community located in a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The problem of lack of motivation in reading was documented…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Environment, Family Environment, Grade 1
Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – 1997
A study investigated effects of a parent volunteer program--a component of the Summer Reading Program of the University of Maryland at College Park--upon children's self-perceptions as readers and their motivation to read. Subjects were 10 students in grades 4 or 6 who were identified as achieving below grade level and who were low motivated…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 6, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Leonhardt, Mary – 1996
This book aims to show parents how to instill the love of reading in their children and how to nurture that love throughout their lives, even in the face of television, video, and computer entertainment. The book is based on the concept of "reading pathways," developed after more than 20 years of classroom observation and interviews. It…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Child Rearing, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Grisham, Dana L. – 1992
A study investigated how literature-based reading/language arts materials were being used in two "exemplary" third/fourth grade combination classes, the influence of teacher epistemology on classroom instruction, and whether teachers were enacting the whole language emphasis mandated by the state. One of the two participating teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Chance, Sandra L. – 1992
A practicum was developed which implemented various strategies to increase consistently below average reading comprehension scores of eighth-grade students. A targeted group of 16 students with middle ranking stanine scores was selected. Objectives included raising reading comprehension scores using task specific strategies, developing a more…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Jimenez, Robert T.; And Others – 1994
A study described the cognitive and metacognitive knowledge of a sixth-grade proficient bilingual reader who was a Latina by comparing her reading processes and strategies with those of a marginally proficient bilingual reader and a proficient monolingual reader. Data collection processes included prompted and unprompted think-alouds, interviews,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Hispanic American Students
Folsom, Kathy – 1994
A program was designed to improve the reading interests of students in a rural middle school. An analysis of the problem indicated that the students were not reading many library books. One of the probable causes for the lack of interest was related to the small amount of recreational reading done by students. A search of the literature revealed…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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