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Votypka, Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this mixed methods study is to examine the relationship and the changes that take place over time between reading motivation, reading frequency and reading achievement for students participating in PREP, a primary reading engagement program. It is imperative to build reading motivation when students are young so they enjoy reading…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement
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Jennifer Gingerich; Michelle Adler – Kansas English, 2020
Research continues to demonstrate that motivated readers read more, yet too often students are not exposed to genres that might motivate them to continue reading. Further, students might not be encouraged to read outside their preferred reading genre. When students are unmotivated to read, they often do not read or do not finish the books they…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement, Student Motivation
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Rosenzweig, Emily Q.; Wigfield, Allan; Gaspard, Hanna; Guthrie, John T. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Interventions can enhance students' motivation for reading, but few researchers have assessed the effects of the specific motivation-enhancing practices that comprise these interventions. Even fewer have evaluated how students' perceptions of different intervention practices impact their later motivation and academic outcomes. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Student Motivation, Structural Equation Models
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Nevo, Einat; Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study examined changes in reading motivation and reading achievement among Hebrew-speaking first graders following an intervention program designed to increase intrinsic reading motivation. The program was delivered by the class teacher and focused on choosing relevant reading materials, providing choices for reading and encouraging social…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement, Semitic Languages, Prediction
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Brannan, Lauren R.; Johnson, R. Burke; Giles, Rebecca M.; Kent, Andrea M. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2020
The purpose of the present study was to explore the beliefs and practices of teachers who implement independent reading in their classrooms. Results showed that teachers who implemented independent reading believed in the importance of both the quantity and quality of student reading. The teachers' practices of independent reading showed students…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement
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Bates, Celeste C.; D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Gambrell, Linda; Xu, Meling – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
This study examined the effects of Reading Recovery on children's motivational levels, and how motivation may contribute to the effect of the intervention on literacy achievement. Prior studies concluded that Reading Recovery was positively associated with increased student motivation levels, but most of those studies were limited…
Descriptors: Reading, Grade 1, Reading Motivation, Reading Improvement
Whittingham, Jeff; Rickman, Wendy A. – Knowledge Quest, 2015
Summer drift, otherwise known as loss of reading comprehension skills or reading achievement, has been a well-known and well-documented phenomenon of public education for decades. Studies from the late twentieth century to the present have demonstrated a slowdown in summer drift attributed to specific summer reading programs addressing motivation…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
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MacPhee, Deborah; Sanden, Sherry – Reading Horizons, 2016
The influence of motivation on readers' behaviors has received wide attention in literacy scholarship. The importance of readers' motivations for reading becomes critical when considered in relation to readers' engagement with reading activities and their perceptions of themselves a competent. This article presents a qualitative study of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Reading Motivation, Reading
Rodgers, Jennifer E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Developmental courses are offered at most two year and four year colleges and universities in order to meet the instructional needs of students who have shown skill deficiencies based upon test scores in the areas of reading, English, or mathematics. The purpose of developmental reading courses at the postsecondary level is to increase students'…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Recreational Reading, Reading Programs, Community Colleges
Miller, Leigh Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Empirical evidence suggests a correlation between motivation and reading achievement as well as a decline in motivation as students progress through the grades. In order to address this issue, it is necessary to determine the instructional methods that promote motivation and identity development in reading. This study examines the motivation and…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Programs, Workshops, Reading Achievement
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Conradi, Kristin; Amendum, Steven J.; Liebfreund, Meghan D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
This study examined the contributions of decoding, language, spelling, and motivation to the reading comprehension of elementary school readers in a high-poverty setting. Specifically, the research questions addressed whether and how the influences of word reading efficiency, semantic knowledge, reading self-concept, and spelling on reading…
Descriptors: Poverty, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Muñiz, Deborah L. – Houston Independent School District, 2014
Houston Real Men Read is chaired by Texas Senator Rodney Ellis and spearheaded by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board Trustee Paula M. Harris. Houston Real Men Read is a mentoring program in which men from the Houston community committed one hour, once a month, to read to second, fifth, and seventh-grade students. The program…
Descriptors: Mentors, Males, School Community Programs, Grade 2
Nichols, Jan Shelton – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Schools in the United States have been using the Accelerated Reader (AR) program since the mid-1980s. A search of the literature related to the effectiveness of the AR program revealed that many of the studies were conducted more than a decade ago, and a large number of those studies failed to utilize a control group to provide comparative data.…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
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Smith, Amy; Westberg, Karen – Current Issues in Education, 2011
The Accelerated Reader program was designed by Renaissance Learning to increase students' motivation to read and students' achievement in reading; however, a review of the literature reveals inconsistent findings about its outcomes. The Renaissance Learning company reports several research studies on their website that suggest the program is…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement, Student Attitudes
Pope, S.; Galle, A. – National Literacy Trust, 2014
In 2012, Oxfordshire County Council commissioned the National Literacy Trust to deliver a two-year campaign, the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign, to address falling Key Stage 1 literacy levels in the county's primary schools, which were amongst the worst in the country. The aims of the campaign were to increase the proportion of children reaching the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills
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