The 5th Journal Summary

The Intermediate Grades: What makes intermediate-grade students want to read?

Pupils who read more can become more capable fluency reading and comprehension.  School programs often use award to attracting pupils to read but it did not work.  Their reading attitude and motivation become categorized into two they are: engaging instruction, choice and variety in reading material. In engaging instruction student have the teacher introduced books that can be their favourite and read segment. In this categorized, pupils can see the teacher enthusiasm through their action. However, in the choice and variety in reading material when they get asked what their favourite pupils get excited to list their favourite book based in the introduced book by the teacher. When usually it would be magazine, comic book, mysteries, jokes stories, materials about sport, series books, and relevant characters or theme books. But, the student mention of wide variety publications can change anytime because of variety factors. To capture their excitement to foster learning it important for categorized the student preference.

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 What makes intermediate-grade students want to read?

Worthy, Jo

The Reading Teacher; Mar 2002; 55, 6; Arts & Humanities Database

pg. 568