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Engaging Adolescents in Reading

By: John T. Guthrie

Inspire learners' passion for reading!

Featuring contributions from content teachers working in collaboration with reading researcher John T. Guthrie, this insightful book discusses teaching frameworks, student activities, and textbooks that can motivate reluctant learners to become active readers. The writers offer examples that vividly illustrate how motivation looks from the teacher's vantage point and how students experience deep reading engagement. This accessible text 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

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412953351
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 208
Publication date: March 13, 2014

Price: $40.95

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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.

Key features

Important new work from leading name in literacy
Interprets latest research on best strategies for secondary reading
Connects comprehension success and student motivation
Shows strategies in practice in the classrooms of real teachers
Infused throughout with expertise and practical application

Author(s)

John T. Guthrie

John T. Guthrie is the Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland, College Park. As Director of the Maryland Literacy Research Center, he studies motivations and strategies in reading at all school levels. Before coming to Maryland, he was Research Director for the International Reading Association. He began his career at Johns Hopkins University, where he founded the Kennedy School for children with reading disabilities. His works on reading engagement have been published in the Reading Research Quarterly, the Journal of Educational Psychology, and the Elementary School Journal. He is a recipient of the Oscar Causey Award for Outstanding Reading Research, a member of the International Reading Association Hall of Fame, and the 2004 recipient of the University of Maryland System Regents’ Award for research/scholarship/creative activity.

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

Reviews

“A must-read for all middle and high school teachers interested in motivating and engaging students to enhance their reading development and help them enjoy it at the same time.”

Lesley M. Morrow, Professor of Literacy
Rutgers University

"Finally, a book that targets reading motivation and engagement during the critical years of middle and high school. 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

"Meticulously synthesizes research to give credibility to teaching practices that enlist, challenge, and instill confidence and self-efficacy in unmotivated and disenfranchised adolescents. An important addition to the professional library of educators who want to complement the current emphasis on strategies instruction and achievement with an intelligent overview of how motivation and engagement undergird student success, competence, desire to read, and enjoyment of learning."

David G. O'Brien, Professor of Literacy Education
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

"Practical instructional ideas that promote motivation are presented by teachers themselves, preserving the unmistakably authentic ring of actual classroom discourse. Each chapter, however, is written in collaboration with Guthrie, an outstanding researcher in this area who extends and contextualizes the models with reference to more than 200 studies, confirming the validity of each approach."

CHOICE Magazine, June 2008, Vol. 45(10)
American Library Association

"From tapping into adolescent social natures through group activities to building proficiency in those with reading problems, this book is an outstanding set of tips for overcoming reluctance in readers."

The Bookwatch, June 2008
Midwest Book Review

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