The Adolescent's Motivation to Read

Paper Summary:

This paper assesses the motivations of the adolescent individual to read. It begins by looking into what characterizes the age of adolescence and how this may affect an adolescent's desire to read and her success in reading. It also analyzes the effects of an individual adolescent's failure to be successful in reading. The paper also discusses how these factors need to be taken into account when planning classroom instruction in this area of learning.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Background
Definitions & Terms of the Research
Present Issues
Concrete Instructional Practices/Strategies for Classroom Incorporation
Summary and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Wigfield has identified the important of the beliefs of students in relation to their own competence in reading and the fact that adolescents are often more motivated for 'non traditional' reading than they are for 'in school' reading. Adolescents often suffer from resistance to reading and disaffection for reading which may overcome meaningful reading experiences and reading material that has connections to the subject area. Reading instruction that is collaborative has also been found to be effective in motivating adolescent learners in reading instruction. (Wigfield, nd)"
"Stated in the work of Alvermann is the important fact that while instructional practices that vary have been shown to have little effect on student reading levels and achievement 'engagement of students' has been shown to be "the mediating factor, or avenue" (2001) or path through which the instructor may use their classroom instructional practice for positively impact the outcome of the student in reading achievement and reading comprehension."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Davey, Heidi (2006) Motivation and Adolescent and Adult Readers. PowerPoint presentation. Hoffman Estates High School, Northern Illinois University. Online available at: http://www.reading.ie/conferences/2006/Motivation%20and%20the%20Adolescent%20Reader.ppt.
• Alvermann, Donna E. (2001) Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents. National Reading Conference (NRC) position paper - revised. 25 Oct 2001. Online available at: http://www.coe.uga.edu/reading/faculty/alvermann/effective2.pdf.
• Reading Literacy for the 21st Century (2004) published online and available at: http://www.all4ed.org/publications/Reading%20for%2021st%20Century.pdf.
• Wigfield, Alan (nd) Motivation for Literacy During Adolescence. Online available at: http://www.soe.umich.edu/events/als/downloads/wigfield.pdf.
• Kamil, Michael L. (2003) Adolescents and Literacy: Reading for the 21st Century. 2003 Nov. Alliance for Excellent Education. Online available at: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:V940NVN5-tUJ:www.all4ed.org/publications/AdolescentsAndLiteracy.pdf+adolescents,+reading,+motivation&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us.

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