Reading Motivation: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Children's Willingness to Read

Reading Motivation: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Childrens Willingness to Read provides a step-by-step guide for conducting rigorous and systematic case studies of childrens motivation to read, using methods that have been used successfully to elicit the perspectives of children as young as five years of age. It also explains how to formatively and summatively analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and how to present findings and make changes to programming in response to findings.

Format: Hardback
Length: 170 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Reading Motivation: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Childrens Willingness to Read is a comprehensive resource that explores the significance of nurturing children's motivation to read and provides a step-by-step approach for conducting thorough and systematic case studies of children's motivation to read in various contexts, such as reading intervention programs. The book emphasizes the importance of actively engaging children in the research process, allowing them to express their perspectives and experiences. It suggests that readers collaborate with peers to collect and analyze multiple types of data from diverse sources to gain a comprehensive understanding of children's motivation. Separate chapters delve into the process of formatively and summatively analyzing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data, as well as presenting findings and making necessary adjustments to programming based on the insights gained. Each chapter concludes with a summary and a guided activity to reinforce the skills learned.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475863499