Lärares motivationsfrämjande arbete inom läsundervisningen i svenska årskurs 4-6 : En studie baserad på observationer av fyra lärares arbete inom svenskämnet

As Swedish students´ reading comprehension is in decline and reading is getting less space in the lives of children and young people, a large responsibility is placed on the school to promote students’ motivation to read. For that reason, the purpose of this study has been to examine how teachers promote students’ motivation to read fiction. The study has been conducted by using a model called Model of reading development to observe aspects of teacher’s actions and teacher’s choice of activities and tasks, which can be considered to promote student’s motivation to read. The study has been based on seven concepts, and these have been used as criteria for what can be considered to promote students’ motivation to read. In order to explore how teachers promote students’ motivation to read, this model has been used to analyse observations of four teachers’ who teach the subject of Swedish grades 4-6. The results show that all concepts, in the model called instructional processes, are somehow expressed at some point in the four observed teachers’ lessons. The study also shows that many different aspects of the teachers’ action and activities can function as motivational promotion and the observations showed that these activities and actions vary depending on the type of lesson and its planning. Regarding to what teachers do which can be considered as motivational, the study found that all teachers used modelling for students and activities were students had to collaborate with each other. All the teachers in the study also gave the students praise for effort and progress.