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Marinak, Barbara A.; Gambrell, Linda B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
This study investigated the effects of reward proximity and choice of reward on the reading motivation of third-grade students as measured by indicators of task persistence. The major finding from this study was that students who were given a book as a reward and students who received no reward were more motivated to engage in subsequent reading…
Descriptors: Proximity, Persistence, Reading Motivation, Rewards
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Das, J. P.; Georgiou, George; Janzen, Troy – Reading Psychology, 2008
The objectives of the present study were twofold: (a) to explore the interrelationship among distal, proximal cognitive skills, and word reading; and (b) to identify those cognitive processes that predict phonological awareness and rapid naming. Seventy First-Nation Canadian children attending grades 3 and 4 were examined on phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Grade 3, Cognitive Processes