ABSTRACT
This chapter provides basic concepts of motivation and engagement accompanied by a theoretical framework for organizing them. It discusses several perspectives that teachers often seem to use to initiate motivation support in the classroom. The chapter also provides empirically based appraisals of each of these teaching perspectives. It presents some assessment concepts and samples of scales that have been used in measuring motivation and engagement. A central feature of our model of motivation and engagement is a focus on classroom processes and contexts that can impact each positively and negatively. For instance, social motivation to read leads students into deeper reading for the purpose of exchanging, sharing, and communicating fully. The chapter also suggests that teachers take at least five approaches to thinking about motivation, organizing for it in the classroom, and introducing students to exciting literacy departures. Prominent among a teacher's benefits for fostering engagement is the sheer pleasure of seeing students delightfully absorbed in literacy.
