Reading Engagement: Motivational, Strategic Reading Through Integrated Instruction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872071480 ISBN 13: 9780872071483

Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn, 1997

Synopsis

Making students want to read is a top priority for many reading educators. Reading Engagement will help you understand the research on motivation and use it in your efforts to enhance children’s literacy development. This book focuses on classroom contexts for promoting reading engagement and covers such diverse topics as children’s motivations for reading, teacher perceptions, reading efficacy, and motivational development.

©1997 | 256 pp | ISBN: 0-87207-148-0 | 148-553 | Elementary/Middle/General

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Motivating students to read is a top priority for many classroom teachers, yet research in the area of motivation has not always been readily available to literacy educators, "Reading Engagement" provides an interpretation of the available research on motivation and describes motivational approaches in classroom contexts.

Drawing on the professional literature of many fields, this volume will help teacher educators, researchers, and graduate students understand the research literature on motivation and use it in their efforts to enhance children's literacy development. Chapters in the first section of the book cover such diverse topics as children's motivations for reading, teacher perceptions, reading efficacy, and motivational development. The second section focuses on classroom contexts for promoting reading engagement and gives instructional frameworks, classroom contexts for promoting reading engagement and gives instructional frameworks, examples of successful programs, and classroom strategies to increase student motivation.

Editors Guthrie and Wigfield and the other educational experts whose work appears in "Reading Engagement" make a significant contribution to the timely and important issue of motivating students to read.

About the Author:

John T. Guthrie is Codirector of the National Reading Research Center and a professor in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA.

Allan Wigfield is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0872071480
• ISBN 13: 9780872071483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Guthrie John T., Wigfield Allan