Keywords
principles of motivation, student motivation, literary circles, reading motivation
Submission Type
Research
Preview
Have you ever seen a struggling reader rally his friends to buy the same book at a school book fair, and then spearhead a series of literacy circle activities during recess time? Uncommon at best, right? Recently, one fourth grade teacher in Utah County while implementing reading motivational principles in her classroom reported just such an incident. In her words: “I have a group of boys in my class and one of them is a[n] extremely low reader and I don’t know if he has ever tried reading a chapter book or anything like that, and they made their own literature circle. Like they would talk about the book at recess and they all bought the same book at a book fair . . . and they would discuss it. He would tell me, ‘It’s getting really good!’”
Recommended Citation
Sharp, Ann C.; Brandt, Lorilynn; and Gardner, Douglas S.
(2016)
"Inspiring Students to Value Reading,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 44, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol44/iss1/2