Assessing Adolescents' Motivation to Read

By Sharon M. Pitcher, Lettie K. Albright, C. Delaney, Nancy T. Walker, Krishna Seunarinesingh, S. Mogge, Kathy N. Headley, V. Ridgeway, Sharon M. Peck, Rebecca Hunt and 1 more. 2007

271 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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Citations in the corpus

• Exploring the relationship between adolescent’s reading skills, reading motivation and reading habits (2014, unknown): “Indeed, Clark (2011) and Pitcher et al. (2007) found that digital activities (i.e., text messaging, internet, social networking sites, email) were among adolescents more typical literacy habits.”
• Metacognitive Reading Strategies, Motivation, and Reading Comprehension Performance of Saudi EFL Students (2016, methodology): “The problem on low level of reading motivation is a universal problem (Pitcher et al., 2007). Pitcher et al. (2007) tried to assess the adolescents’ motivation to read and the cause of a decline through a descriptive survey method.”
• The Effects of Differentiated Instruction and Enrichment Pedagogy on Reading Achievement in Five Elementary Schools (2011, background): “In addition to general concerns about reading competency, a related concern among reading educators and researchers is students’ declining interest and engagement in reading across all grade levels (Greenberg, Gilbert, & Fredrick, 2006; Guthrie & Wigfield, 2000; Pitcher et al., 2007; Unrau & Schlack”