Engaging Adolescents in Reading
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"A must-read for all middle and high school teachers interested in motivating and engaging their students to enhance their reading development and help them enjoy it at the same time."
—Lesley M. Morrow, Professor of Literacy
Rutgers University
"This rich compendium of information offers a solid plan of action for teachers who want to ensure that their students are highly motivated literacy learners."
—Linda B. Gambrell, Distinguished Professor of Education
Clemson University
Inspire learners' passion for reading!
Every day, secondary school teachers face the challenge of engaging students in essential reading tasks. This accessible text links key instructional practices with current research on reading motivation, engagement, and classroom context to help reluctant learners become active readers.
Featuring contributions from content teachers working in collaboration with reading researcher John T. Guthrie, Engaging Adolescents in Reading offers examples that vividly illustrate how motivation looks from the teacher's vantage point and how students can experience deep reading engagement. The writers discuss teaching frameworks, student activities, and textbooks, and demonstrate how to use classroom-tested motivational approaches. This insightful book shows educators how to:
- Infuse reading assignments with significance and meaning
- Present choices that encourage students to take charge of their learning
- Tap into adolescents' social natures through group activities
- Build proficiency and confidence in struggling readers
With examples from the content areas, these strategies help teachers increase adolescents' engagement with texts and boost their reading enjoyment.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
About the Editor
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
1. Reading Motivation and Engagement in Middle and High School: Appraisal and Intervention
- Dilemmas of Students’ Motivation and Engagement in School Reading
- Challenge: Teacher Support for Motivation and Engagement
- Meaning Is Motivating: Classroom Goal Structures
- Control and Choice: Supporting Self-Directed Reading
- Reading Is Social: Bringing Peer Interaction to the Text
- Self-Efficacy: Building Confident Readers
- Interest in Reading: Potency of Relevance
- Struggling Readers: Boosting Motivation in Low Achievers
- Merging Engagement Support Into Structured Classroom Management
- Next Steps: Transforming Classrooms and Schools
2. Meaning Is Motivating: Classroom Goal Structures
- Providing Mastery Goals
- Making Tasks Relevant
- Using Hands-On Activities
- Mastery vs. Performance Motivation: Theory and Research
- Transforming Text to Meaning
- Scaffolding Mastery Motivation
- Providing Reteach Opportunities
- Rewarding Effort Over Performance
3. Control and Choice: Supporting Self-Directed Reading
- Providing Control and Choice in Instruction
- Overview of Instructional Practices
- Ownership of Text
- Options for How to Learn From Text
- Input Into Curriculum
- Student Self-Direction and Shared Control: Theory and Research
- Self-Selection of Knowledge Displays
- Voice in Standards for Evaluating
- Inquiry Projects
- Scaffolding Control and Choice for Diverse Students
- Order in the Classroom!
- Roles for Administrators
4. Reading Is Social: Bringing Peer Interaction to the Text
- Open Discussions
- Student-Led Discussions
- Collaborative Reasoning
- Why Social Interaction? Research and Theory
- Arranging Partnerships
- Socially Constructing Class Management
- Scaffolding Social Motivation Over Time
5. Self-Efficacy: Building Confident Readers
- Recognizing the Gap
- Matching Text to Students
- How Self-Efficacy Develops in a Classroom: Theory and Research
- Establishing Initial Confidence
- Setting Realistic Goals
- Assuring Enabling Skills
6. Interest in Reading: Potency of Relevance
- Rationale for Relevance
- Real-World Connection
- Personalizing With Questioning
- Extending Intrinsic Interests
- How Relevance Works: Theory and Evidence
- Self-Expression
- Puzzling
7. Growing Motivation: How Students Develop
- Context Counts
- Situated Motivation Is Significant
- Motives Move From Outside to Inside
- Internal Motivation Drives Achievement
- General Motivation Is Stable
- Global Internal Motivation Declines Across Time
- Cause and Effect?
8. Struggling Readers: Boosting Motivation in Low Achievers
- Our Challenges
- Varieties of Unmotivated Readers
- Externally Motivated Low Achievers
- Approaches to Motivation for Moderately Struggling Readers
- Low Achievers Who Resist Reading
- Approaches to Motivation for Resistant Students
- A Learning Curriculum for Struggling Readers
- Resistant Students Who Struggle to Recognize Words
- Instructional Approaches for Resistant Students With Word Reading Deficits
9. Next Steps for Teachers
- Identifying One Motivation to Address
- Selecting Several Instructional Practices to Initiate Motivation
- Planning Short-Term Change
- Planning Long-Term Change
- Phasing in Support for All Motivations and Implementing All Practices
- Tools for Teachers
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
Resources
Resources
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"A must-read for all middle and high school teachers interested in motivating and engaging their students to enhance their reading development and help them enjoy it at the same time."
—Lesley M. Morrow, Professor of Literacy
Rutgers University
"This rich compendium of information offers a solid plan of action for teachers who want to ensure that their students are highly motivated literacy learners."
—Linda B. Gambrell, Distinguished Professor of Education
Clemson University
Inspire learners' passion for reading!
Every day, secondary school teachers face the challenge of engaging students in essential reading tasks. This accessible text links key instructional practices with current research on reading motivation, engagement, and classroom context to help reluctant learners become active readers.
Featuring contributions from content teachers working in collaboration with reading researcher John T. Guthrie, Engaging Adolescents in Reading offers examples that vividly illustrate how motivation looks from the teacher's vantage point and how students can experience deep reading engagement. The writers discuss teaching frameworks, student activities, and textbooks, and demonstrate how to use classroom-tested motivational approaches. This insightful book shows educators how to:
- Infuse reading assignments with significance and meaning
- Present choices that encourage students to take charge of their learning
- Tap into adolescents' social natures through group activities
- Build proficiency and confidence in struggling readers
With examples from the content areas, these strategies help teachers increase adolescents' engagement with texts and boost their reading enjoyment.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
About the Editor
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
1. Reading Motivation and Engagement in Middle and High School: Appraisal and Intervention
- Dilemmas of Students’ Motivation and Engagement in School Reading
- Challenge: Teacher Support for Motivation and Engagement
- Meaning Is Motivating: Classroom Goal Structures
- Control and Choice: Supporting Self-Directed Reading
- Reading Is Social: Bringing Peer Interaction to the Text
- Self-Efficacy: Building Confident Readers
- Interest in Reading: Potency of Relevance
- Struggling Readers: Boosting Motivation in Low Achievers
- Merging Engagement Support Into Structured Classroom Management
- Next Steps: Transforming Classrooms and Schools
2. Meaning Is Motivating: Classroom Goal Structures
- Providing Mastery Goals
- Making Tasks Relevant
- Using Hands-On Activities
- Mastery vs. Performance Motivation: Theory and Research
- Transforming Text to Meaning
- Scaffolding Mastery Motivation
- Providing Reteach Opportunities
- Rewarding Effort Over Performance
3. Control and Choice: Supporting Self-Directed Reading
- Providing Control and Choice in Instruction
- Overview of Instructional Practices
- Ownership of Text
- Options for How to Learn From Text
- Input Into Curriculum
- Student Self-Direction and Shared Control: Theory and Research
- Self-Selection of Knowledge Displays
- Voice in Standards for Evaluating
- Inquiry Projects
- Scaffolding Control and Choice for Diverse Students
- Order in the Classroom!
- Roles for Administrators
4. Reading Is Social: Bringing Peer Interaction to the Text
- Open Discussions
- Student-Led Discussions
- Collaborative Reasoning
- Why Social Interaction? Research and Theory
- Arranging Partnerships
- Socially Constructing Class Management
- Scaffolding Social Motivation Over Time
5. Self-Efficacy: Building Confident Readers
- Recognizing the Gap
- Matching Text to Students
- How Self-Efficacy Develops in a Classroom: Theory and Research
- Establishing Initial Confidence
- Setting Realistic Goals
- Assuring Enabling Skills
6. Interest in Reading: Potency of Relevance
- Rationale for Relevance
- Real-World Connection
- Personalizing With Questioning
- Extending Intrinsic Interests
- How Relevance Works: Theory and Evidence
- Self-Expression
- Puzzling
7. Growing Motivation: How Students Develop
- Context Counts
- Situated Motivation Is Significant
- Motives Move From Outside to Inside
- Internal Motivation Drives Achievement
- General Motivation Is Stable
- Global Internal Motivation Declines Across Time
- Cause and Effect?
8. Struggling Readers: Boosting Motivation in Low Achievers
- Our Challenges
- Varieties of Unmotivated Readers
- Externally Motivated Low Achievers
- Approaches to Motivation for Moderately Struggling Readers
- Low Achievers Who Resist Reading
- Approaches to Motivation for Resistant Students
- A Learning Curriculum for Struggling Readers
- Resistant Students Who Struggle to Recognize Words
- Instructional Approaches for Resistant Students With Word Reading Deficits
9. Next Steps for Teachers
- Identifying One Motivation to Address
- Selecting Several Instructional Practices to Initiate Motivation
- Planning Short-Term Change
- Planning Long-Term Change
- Phasing in Support for All Motivations and Implementing All Practices
- Tools for Teachers
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
Resources
Resources
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
December 2007 | 208 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412953351 | $40.95 |
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412953344 | $90.95 |
| Lifetime | 30/09/2024 | 9781452294841 | $37.00 |
"A must-read for all middle and high school teachers interested in motivating and engaging their students to enhance their reading development and help them enjoy it at the same time."
—Lesley M. Morrow, Professor of Literacy
Rutgers University
"This rich compendium of information offers a solid plan of action for teachers who want to ensure that their students are highly motivated literacy learners."
—Linda B. Gambrell, Distinguished Professor of Education
Clemson University
Inspire learners' passion for reading!
Every day, secondary school teachers face the challenge of engaging students in essential reading tasks. This accessible text links key instructional practices with current research on reading motivation, engagement, and classroom context to help reluctant learners become active readers.
Featuring contributions from content teachers working in collaboration with reading researcher John T. Guthrie, Engaging Adolescents in Reading offers examples that vividly illustrate how motivation looks from the teacher's vantage point and how students can experience deep reading engagement. The writers discuss teaching frameworks, student activities, and textbooks, and demonstrate how to use classroom-tested motivational approaches. This insightful book shows educators how to:
- Infuse reading assignments with significance and meaning
- Present choices that encourage students to take charge of their learning
- Tap into adolescents' social natures through group activities
- Build proficiency and confidence in struggling readers
With examples from the content areas, these strategies help teachers increase adolescents' engagement with texts and boost their reading enjoyment.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors
- 1. Reading Motivation and Engagement in Middle and High School: Appraisal and Intervention
- Dilemmas of Students’ Motivation and Engagement in School Reading
- Challenge: Teacher Support for Motivation and Engagement
- Meaning Is Motivating: Classroom Goal Structures
- Control and Choice: Supporting Self-Directed Reading
- Reading Is Social: Bringing Peer Interaction to the Text
- Self-Efficacy: Building Confident Readers
- Interest in Reading: Potency of Relevance
- Struggling Readers: Boosting Motivation in Low Achievers
- Merging Engagement Support Into Structured Classroom Management
- Next Steps: Transforming Classrooms and Schools
- 2. Meaning Is Motivating: Classroom Goal Structures
- Providing Mastery Goals
- Making Tasks Relevant
- Using Hands-On Activities
- Mastery vs. Performance Motivation: Theory and Research
- Transforming Text to Meaning
- Scaffolding Mastery Motivation
- Providing Reteach Opportunities
- Rewarding Effort Over Performance
- 3. Control and Choice: Supporting Self-Directed Reading
- Providing Control and Choice in Instruction
- Overview of Instructional Practices
- Ownership of Text
- Options for How to Learn From Text
- Input Into Curriculum
- Student Self-Direction and Shared Control: Theory and Research
- Self-Selection of Knowledge Displays
- Voice in Standards for Evaluating
- Inquiry Projects
- Scaffolding Control and Choice for Diverse Students
- Order in the Classroom!
- Roles for Administrators
- 4. Reading Is Social: Bringing Peer Interaction to the Text
- Open Discussions
- Student-Led Discussions
- Collaborative Reasoning
- Why Social Interaction? Research and Theory
- Arranging Partnerships
- Socially Constructing Class Management
- Scaffolding Social Motivation Over Time
- 5. Self-Efficacy: Building Confident Readers
- Recognizing the Gap
- Matching Text to Students
- How Self-Efficacy Develops in a Classroom: Theory and Research
- Establishing Initial Confidence
- Setting Realistic Goals
- Assuring Enabling Skills
- 6. Interest in Reading: Potency of Relevance
- Rationale for Relevance
- Real-World Connection
- Personalizing With Questioning
- Extending Intrinsic Interests
- How Relevance Works: Theory and Evidence
- Self-Expression
- Puzzling
- 7. Growing Motivation: How Students Develop
- Context Counts
- Situated Motivation Is Significant
- Motives Move From Outside to Inside
- Internal Motivation Drives Achievement
- General Motivation Is Stable
- Global Internal Motivation Declines Across Time
- Cause and Effect?
- 8. Struggling Readers: Boosting Motivation in Low Achievers
- Our Challenges
- Varieties of Unmotivated Readers
- Externally Motivated Low Achievers
- Approaches to Motivation for Moderately Struggling Readers
- Low Achievers Who Resist Reading
- Approaches to Motivation for Resistant Students
- A Learning Curriculum for Struggling Readers
- Resistant Students Who Struggle to Recognize Words
- Instructional Approaches for Resistant Students With Word Reading Deficits
- 9. Next Steps for Teachers
- Identifying One Motivation to Address
- Selecting Several Instructional Practices to Initiate Motivation
- Planning Short-Term Change
- Planning Long-Term Change
- Phasing in Support for All Motivations and Implementing All Practices
- Tools for Teachers
- Questionnaires
- Resources
- References
- Index