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Motivation for Reading: Individual, Home, Textual, and Classroom Perspectives: A Special Issue of educational Psychologist
Contributor(s): Wigfield, Allan (Editor), Guthrie, John T. (Editor)
ISBN: 0805898727     ISBN-13: 9780805898729
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $44.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 1997
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Educational Psychology
- Education | Language Experience Approach
- Language Arts & Disciplines
Dewey: 372.47
Physical Information: 0.17" H x 8.25" W x 11" (0.45 lbs) 82 pages
 
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Based on research from the National Reading Research Center (NRRC) at the Universities of Georgia and Maryland, this issue presents the contributors' sythesized work on reading motivation and engagement. Articles are devoted to the following topics:
* the general motivation constructs related to reading;
* home influences on reading motivation;
* readers' responses to different types of text;
* influences of classroom contexts; and
* types of assessment on children's motivation.