Building Reading Confidence in Adolescents: Key Elements That Enhance Proficiency [Paperback]

The authors present a research-based approach for building reading self-efficacy and focus on four concepts necessary to learners' literacy success: confidence, independence, metacognition, and stamina.The authors present a research-based approach for building reading self-efficacy and focus on four concepts necessary to learners' literacy success: confidence, independence, metacognition, and stamina. A tremendous book. Research shows and teachers know that motivation is a central challenge facing teachers today. This text provides fresh insight into self-efficacy, an essential component of motivation, by exploring what it is, how to cultivate it, and how to nurture it in the context of innovative teaching that develops literacy competence in a range of areas. Both practicing and preservice educators from all content areas need this amazing collection of constructive concepts and strategies that affect adolescent readers' attitudes toward academic and non-academic literacy. This book not only exposes educators to why facilitating engagement with reading is important, but also shares how to help adolescent readers enjoy a?lifelong relationship with literacy. Introduction
Why Is Self-Efficacy Important in Reading?
The Purpose of the Text
The Audience for This Text
Outline of the Text
1. The Four Elements of Reading Self-Efficacy
Identifying the Self-Efficacy Elements of C-I-M-S
Confidence
Independence
Metacognition
Stamina
Self-Efficacy and the Cueing System
Learning from Teachers and Students
Validating and Violating C-I-M-S
Validation of Readers' C-I-M-S
Environmental Elements
Teaching/Learning Dialectic
Curricular Decisions
Affective Issues
Strategies
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