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Record Nr.

UNINA9910481040403321

Titolo

Engaging adolescents in reading / / John T. Guthrie, editor ; cover designer, Rose Storey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4522-9484-4

1-4522-9798-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

428.40712

Soggetti

Reading (Secondary) - United States

Reading (Middle school) - United States

Motivation in education - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Editor""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 2 - Meaning is Motivating: Classroom Goal Structures""; ""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""



""Chapter 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""

""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 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""

""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 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?""

""Chapter 8 - Struggling Readers: Boosting Motivation in Low Achievers""

Sommario/riassunto

With contributions from content teachers, this insightful book discusses instructional approaches, student activities, and textbooks that can motivate reluctant learners to become active readers.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996386980703316

Autore

Gentleman in Algier

Titolo

The present state of Algeir [[electronic resource] ] : being a faithful and true account of the most considerable occurences that happened in that place during the lying of the French fleet before it / / in a letter from a gentleman in Algier to his friend in London

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by George Larkin, 1682

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([2] p.)

Soggetti

Pirates - Algeria

Broadsides17th centuryLondonEngland

Algeria History 1516-1830

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Imprint from colophon.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113