Motivating Class VIII Students to Read Books

Abstract

This research shows how to encourage students to inculcate reading habits beyond the classroom through various interventions like Reading Aloud, maintaining a reading portfolio, and Book Talk. Reading makes men perfect in speaking and writing. It is very important to motivate our students constantly and reinforce them. Reading is not only meant for students but everyone because it helps to improve language both in speaking and writing. This research was conducted to examine how to encourage students to be active readers in the classroom as well as anywhere they required. Students were given various platforms to practice their reading inside the classroom and maintaining records of their readings too. My research was carried out with class VIII students of Chali Lower Secondary School. Data was mainly gathered through mixed methods, that is qualitative and quantitative questionnaires. Students were observed during the usual class hour. The observations were made by recording their reading using criteria. They were observed without informing to get authentic observable responses. In the end, the result was known, why the students usually neglect reading. It helped to understand why students lack reading and what are strategies teachers need to apply to overcome these challenges?