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Books and Websites on Motivation for Teachers

Books

Choice Words: How our language affects children's learning by Peter H. Johnston (Stenhouse, 2004)
*Download Chapter 1 here:
http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0389ch01.pdf

The Integrated Curriculum: Books for Reluctant Readers, Grades 2-5 by Anthony D. Fredericks. (Teacher Ideas Press, 1998)

Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Collection of Teaching Strategies by David W. Moore, Donna E. Alverman, and Kathleen A. Hinchman (International Reading Association, May 2000)

Motivating the Struggling Adolescent Reader: Connecting Literature, Literacy, and Life by Martha Stack Beaudoin, Rosanne Casale Daigneault, and Rose Petrucci-Zbikowski (Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc., 2007)

Reading for Themselves: How to Transform Adolescents into Lifelong Readers Through Out-of-Class Book Clubs by Deborah Appleman (Heinemann, 2006)

Success with Struggling Readers: The Benchmark School Approach by Irene West Gaskins (Guilford Press, 2005)
* Includes several chapters that explore the hows and whys of issues related to motivation, struggling readers

Why Jane and John Couldn’t Read—And How They Learned:  A New Look at Striving Readers by Rosalie Fink (International Reading Association, 2006)
*Download Chapter 1 here: http://www.reading.org/publications/bbv/books/bk592/abstracts/bk592-1-Fink.html

Websites

Motivating kids to read: strategies to help instill both the skill and the will to read
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Motivating+kids+to+read%3a+strategies+to+help+instill+both+the+skill...-a0112088682

Motivating Kids to Read
http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/dispitem.cgi?item=18299&norate=up

Motivating Students To Read: A reflection of strategies and observations.  Action research paper by Donald E. Hoaglin
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/sod/car/abstracts/174.pdf

Motivating Students to Read
http://www.geocities.com/osborne616/Assignment.html

Successful Careers: The Secrets of Adults with Dyslexia by Rosalie P. Fink, Ph.D http://www.careertrainer.com/Request.jsp?lView=ViewArticle&Article=OID%3A33637&Page=OID%3A33638

More about Cognitive Evaluation Theory
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_evaluation.htm

 

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