ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role motivation plays in causing students to engage in comprehension problem solving. Five Factors are used as organizers, to examine how to increase students' intrinsic motivation to comprehend. Five Factors are learner characteristics, how the comprehension task is defined, the texts used, the classroom context, and best teaching practices. The chapter describes specific aspects of motivation that hold special promise for engaging students, including worthy goals, interest, choice, group work, feedback, and diverse texts, especially digital ones. Intrinsic motivation works from the inside out. It is internal, coming from students' own will and desire to learn or do a task because they see inherent worth in the learning and doing. The opposite is extrinsic motivation, which focuses on doing something to get a reward that is outside oneself. External reinforces, such as coupons and money, provide limited control over behavior; when they are removed, the behavior is likely to stop.
