”Om vi visar att vi tycker läsning är kul kanske det motiverar någon mer” : En studie om hur undervisning utvecklar elevernas läsförståelse och deras motivation att läsa.

• Main Author: jonsson, klara
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013) 2021
• Subjects: Reading; reading comprehension; reading strategies; middle school; motivation; word knowledge; Swedish language teaching; Läsning; läsförståelse; lässtrategier; mellanstadiet; ordkunskap; svenskundervisning; Languages and Literature; Språk och litteratur
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84548

The aim of this study is to clarify and concretize how teachers in grades 4-6 work with reading comprehension and how they motivate students to read. This study also aims to review teaching material that teachers use when working with reading comprehension. This study contains a qualitative group interview with teachers within the Swedish subject grading 4-6, as well as an analysis of the study material. The Material consists of the fictional book Brorsan är kung and the teacher´s guide. In the analysis, the content is reviewed and connected to motivation, the possibility to develop reading comprehension and the degree of difficulty of the book. The result of the interview shows that the choice of book from an interest standpoint is essential when motivating the students to read. Furthermore, it also shows that the interview teachers work in different ways when it comes to reading and that they utilize different strategies in order to increase the students reading comprehension. This study is closely connected to the pragmatic perspective when it comes to reading books that are close to the students' reality and interests. Also, the study is in line with the sociocultural perspective which indicates that learning comes from interaction with the environment.