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“If They Don't Read Much, How They Ever Gonna Get Good?”
Author(s) -
Cunningham Pat
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.59.1.10
Subject(s) - incentive , competence (human resources) , reading (process) , reading motivation , psychology , pedagogy , incentive program , mathematics education , public relations , social psychology , political science , law , economics , microeconomics
While acknowledging the importance of practice in developing reading competence, the author questions whether incentive programs (such as Accelerated Reader or the Pizza Hut Book It! program) are useful, particularly for struggling readers. She asks, “Do popular incentive programs accomplish their goal—particularly for struggling readers? Do your struggling readers read more and read more willingly because of the incentive programs you have in place?” Her experience makes her believe that the opposite is true, and that such programs are actually “demotivating” most struggling readers.