Beyond Gold Stars: Motivating Striving Readers from the Inside

Orkin, Wolf and colleagues in Reading & Writing Quarterly (2017): rewards buy compliance, not engagement. This is the research on building intrinsic motivation in striving readers — and the reason RAVE-O bakes word play and stories into the lessons rather than bolting on a sticker chart.

Full citation in Maryanne Wolf’s published CV.

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