Making students want to read is a top priority for many reading educators. Reading Engagement will help you understand the research on motivation and use it in your efforts to enhance children’s literacy development. This book focuses on classroom contexts for promoting reading engagement and covers such diverse topics as children’s motivations for reading, teacher perceptions, reading efficacy, and motivational development.
©1997 | 256 pp | ISBN: 0-87207-148-0 | 148-553 | Elementary/Middle/General
John T. Guthrie is Codirector of the National Reading Research Center and a professor in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA.
Allan Wigfield is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA.