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Student Choice. One method for fostering motivation to read is to provide a variety of interesting materials from which the students can choose. Motivational theorists such as Deci and Ryan (1985) stated that giving students’ choices increases intrinsic motivation. In turn, intrinsically motivated students tend to read more than students who are less intrinsically motivated. Therefore, if choice fosters intrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation promotes frequent reading, and frequent reading correlates with higher achievement, it seems logical to provide students with choice in reading.
Research has demonstrated that both teachers and students report choice as a factor that motivates students to read. Worthy, Turner, and Moorman (1998) conducted a study on the role of self-selected reading during the school day. Worthy et al. (1998) interviewed 35 sixth-grade language arts teachers from nine different school districts in the southwestern United States. One of the purposes of the interviews was to find the most important features of self-selected reading programs.
Classroom Libraries. In order to address student choice, classroom libraries must have an adequate supply of available texts. A well-designed classroom library includes a variety of genres and levels of difficulty.[13;94-118] Having a diverse selection of text on a variety of readability levels is critical in order to serve the needs of each student in a classroom. However, providing an array of interesting reading materials that students can read independently and that match each student’s reading preference is a challenge. Those teachers with an awareness of their students’ interests may do better at eliminating mismatches between students’ reading preference and available texts.
The classroom library is a crucial component in motivating students to read. Because of the strong link between interest and learning students’ reading preferences justify attention in order to increase amount and breadth of students’ reading. Additional research supports the benefits of providing students with a diverse selection of interesting material to read. Once students have been provided with interesting materials to read, teachers could further facilitate increasing the amount and breadth of students reading by modeling the proper reading behavior.