Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index.
Contents:
2. Rewarding effort over performance -- Jessica E. Douglass and John T. Guthrie -- 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 / Jessica E. Douglass and John T. Guthrie -- Providing mastery goals -- Making tasks relevant -- Using hands-on activities -- Mastery versus performance motivation : theory and research -- Transforming text to meaning -- Scaffolding mastery motivation -- Providing reteach opportunities -- Rewarding effort over performance -- 5. Assuring enabling skills -- Shana Yudowitch, Lucas M. Henry, and John T. Guthrie -- 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 / Dee Antonio and John T. Guthrie -- 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 / Shana Yudowitch, Lucas M. Henry, and John T. Guthrie -- 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 -- 9. Questionnaires. John T. Guthrie -- 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 / John T. Guthrie -- 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 / Sandra Jacobs Ivey and John T. Guthrie -- 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 / John T. Guthrie -- 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.
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