Custom essays on Articles Review: “Motivating struggling readers: Three keys to success” by Nancy Padak and Cheryl Potenza-Radis

The second article is “Motivating struggling readers: Three keys to success” by Nancy Padak and Cheryl Potenza-Radis.
1) The purpose of the study was to analyze the ways of students’ motivation to reading.
2) The hypothesis was the following: purposeful and authentic reading programs can help struggling students to increase their motivation to reading and to become successful readers.
3) The peer-led literature discussion is reviewed in the article; this review presents the balanced picture of the problem. Example: “As we have said elsewhere, “Readers should never struggle to the point of failure or frustration in any reading task or activity” (Rasinski et al., 2010, p. 10). – via Padak and Potenza-Radis, 2010.
4) There is no methods section in the article.
5) The authors of the article didn’t provide the practical researches because their objective was to describe and summarize the results of other researches. That is why there is no data about the number of participants and their characteristics.
6) The summary of experimental researches, provided in the article, proves that purposeful and authentic reading programs, good organization, high levels of engagement, focus on motivation for reading, necessary support, knowledge of students and their parents can increase the motivation for reading.
7) It wasn’t a survey or causal comparative/ex post facto study.
8) The timeline of the study wasn’t defined.
9) The two methods of analysis in this article are comparative method and descriptive method. The results were reported in the correspondent text forms and quotes from basic researches. “In 93 percent of reading comprehension test comparisons, children who read in class or who read more in class performed as well or better than counterparts who didn’t read (or didn’t read as much) (Krashen, 2004).- via Padak and Potenza-Radis, 2010.”
10) The major findings of this study were the possibility to improve the performance of struggling students increasing their motivation to reading and it is possible even for dysfunctional groups.
11) The author’s conclusion describes the main idea of the article but it is lacking of detailed information about the researches.
12) As in first case, the implementation of new methodic and its practical value should be studied at the nearest future.
13) This is a useful research for the second problem statement, “that many elementary students struggle with their reading due to lack of cognitive competencies and motivation.” The article provides the direct answers and practical recommendations for this problem solving.