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Direct linkLittlefield, Amy Root – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research on early adolescence reveals significant declines in intrinsic motivation for reading and points out the need for metacognitive strategy use among middle school students. Research indicates that explicit instruction involving motivation and metacognitive support for reading strategy use in the context of a discipline is an efficient and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Teaching Methods, African American Students, Social Studies
