Read4Respect Service-­Learning Project: Motivating and Engaging Students in Reading

By V. Zelenka, Eric Deneault, Keith M. Dreiling, Beth Walizer. 2015

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This paper discusses an afterschool servicelearning project implemented over the course of the school year in a low SES elementary school. This project offered a sustained, coordinated effort to motivate and engage 57 struggling readers in a skillsbased literacy tutoring program. A paired two-sample ttest was conducted to determine if there was a significant increase in scores from the reading attitude pre-survey to the postsurvey for the fall 2014 and spring 2015 semesters. Increases in attitude scores were found for 13 of the 20 survey questions with three of the increases found to be significant. Authors Valerie Zelenka, Eric Deneault, Keith Dreiling, and Beth Walizer This research article is available in The Advocate: https://newprairiepress.org/advocate/vol23/iss1/4 ​ Read4Respect Service­Learning Project: Motivating and Engaging Students in Reading Valerie Zelenka Eric Deneault Keith Dreiling Beth Walizer Ft.Hays State University Abstract This paper discusses an after­school service­learning project implemented over the course of the school year in a low SES elementary school. This project offered a sustained, coordinated effort to motivate and engage 57 struggling readers in a skills­based literacy tutoring program. A paired two­sample t­test was conducted to determine if there was a significant increase in scores from the reading attitude pre­survey to the post­survey for the fall 2014 and spring 2015 semesters. Increases in attitude scores were found for 13 of the 20 survey questions with three of the increases found to be significant.

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