Role of Role of Motivation in Motivation in

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DR. SHARON PITCHERDR. SHARON PITCHER

Rafe EsquithRafe EsquithRafe Esquith, the author of Teach Like Your Hair’s On

Fire, takes children whose first language is not English and receive free lunch and teaches them Shakespeare. Listen to how he motivates students.

Go to U Tube and put “Rafe Esquith” in the search engine. Watch his lecture and the “Light Your Fire” video. You may want to watch some of the other clips available on his school. The Bad Metrics video addresses text prep.

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Blessing Books• Carefully choose a few books to share that

will motivate students to read (series books, favorite author, a different genre).

• Choose a small piece to read aloud from each.

Dr. Linda Gambrell

In the blog for this class, you will be asked to In the blog for this class, you will be asked to bless one book that students would like and bless one book that students would like and one adult book to recommend to your one adult book to recommend to your classmates. Start thinking about what classmates. Start thinking about what books your are going to bless. In your blog books your are going to bless. In your blog response share what elements in the book response share what elements in the book would be appealing.would be appealing.

Research suggests that the Research suggests that the following are crucial to motivation:following are crucial to motivation:

• Choice (Why do all of the students have to read the same book or story?)

• Books on Tape (These are great at a center with the book, of course. Make sure that the total book is read so the students follow the words.)

• Illustrations• Genres (Not all students like fiction)

GenresGenresThese are all of the types of text that we

read:• Fiction• Non-Fiction• Poetry• Opinion (OpEd)• Graphic Novels• Newspapers• Comic Books• Magazines

And More…

• If a book is too difficult, students gets frustrated.• Many struggling readers choose books too difficult as

status symbols.

What can a teacher do, you ask?Have you ever heard of the 5 Finger Rule?The rule is simple - a child has to read one

page of a book he/she wants to borrow with less than five mistakes in order to borrow it.

Also, providing books that look more difficult than they really are when you compute the reading level (How do you do this - you will learn many ways in the Leveling PowerPoint in a future class.)

Text Level

Multicultural Considerations Multicultural Considerations – appeal to diversity– appeal to diversity

This is often very misunderstood. Multicultural means that a book will appeal to students of many cultures. Can all of the children you are assigning the book to make a connection with something in the text? This needs to be carefully thought about when choosing books for your text set.

An Example of a An Example of a Multicultural BookMulticultural Book

John Philip Duck by Patricia Polacco• Many cultures are represented and

students can identify with whether this is the same or different than their lives.

• Check inside the book to see an example.Go to www.amazon.com and put the title in

search - Then click on “Look Inside.

MotivatingMotivatingEnvironments for Environments for

Literacy InstructionLiteracy Instruction

Children engaged…Children engaged…• At a literacy center – notice how

simple the materials are.

A Classroom LibraryA Classroom LibraryIn a New York City School

Books are easy for the children to look through and are divided into genres. Additionally, children can easily put them back.

A Wonderful Word WallA Wonderful Word WallWith literacy center bins under it

From Pimilico Elementary School in Baltimore City.

Children at a CenterChildren at a CenterThey were so engaged that they did not even realize they

were having their picture taken.

Organization Area in a Organization Area in a TrailerTrailer

This New York School was all in trailers.

This area contained literacy centers in bins. At center time the bins were put in different places in the room and then returned here at the end of the language block.

ReadersReaders’’ Notebook Notebook• Place where children respond to their

reading.• Children keep lists of books they

read.• Children keep lists of books that they

want to read.

Literacy Literacy came alive in classroom… came alive in classroom…

And children’s literacy scores soared!

A Little Bit About Assessing A Little Bit About Assessing MotivationMotivation

• Students are motivated by different things.

In your reading for this class, you will learn about the MRP and AMRP. Your focus for this class is on what can be learned by them.

Motivation to Read ProfileMotivation to Read ProfileOriginal MRP• Survey measured “Self Concept as a

Reader” and “Value of Reading”• Conversational Interview

Adolescent Motivation to Read Profile (AMRP) - A Reading for this Week:

• Survey revised to include Instructional Strategies, Self Concept and Value

• Conversational Interview revised to capture out-of-school literacies

RESEARCHERS SUGGESTED RESEARCHERS SUGGESTED THAT TEACHERS:THAT TEACHERS:

• Recognize the multiple literacies in which students are engaged in outside of the classroom and find ways to incorporate them into classroom instruction

• Model our own reading enjoyment• Embrace engaging activities, such as

literature circles and book clubs, into regular instruction in secondary schools.

From HereFrom Here• Read the selections on the Direction Sheet

for Class 2.• I have included a Motivation Jeopardy where

you can test your knowledge and also see how motivating this strategy can be, too. The Motivation Jeopardy and the Jeopardy template (so you can make your own) are both include under Course Documents in Blackboard. You can receive one extra credit point if you try the Motivation Jeopardy and post your score on the Café Discussion Board.

• Participate in the Blog for this week.