Education - Readers and Reading

Doucette Library resources for teaching K-12 students focused on research and strategies about reading

New resources

Exploding the Reading
ISBN: 9781551382999
10 Essential Instructional Elements for Students with Reading Difficulties
ISBN: 9781483373775
The Reading Strategies Book - Missing by Jennifer Serravallo
ISBN: 9780325074337
Publication Date: 2015-05-20
Struggling Readers
ISBN: 9781551382920

Key strategies for helping struggling readers

*Create supportive relationships

*Model thoughtful reading

*Promote self-monitoring

*Use materials students can successfully read, but also give them extensive support for more challenging texts

*Build engagement with the text

*Provide books and materials in various formats

--from: Subjects Matter (2014), p. 281 (see for further elaboration)

Choosing to belong: increasing adolescent male engagement in the ELA classroom.
Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Practice Brief
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The purpose of this practice brief is to provide schools, districts, and states with background knowledge about best practices for older students who struggle to read. It focuses on the reading skills that adolescents need to more fully access content-area curricula and, in turn, secure a productive future.
Girls as "Struggling Readers": Delineating the Sociopolitical and Sociocultural Terrains of Books and Reading.
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This article presents research about girls who are limited in their reading skills and their rationale for the selection of books they choose to read. The author states that there is a perception that girls are proficient at reading and enjoy reading. This study also focuses on their interaction with books and conceptions of reading.
Resistance, struggle and the adolescent reader
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An overview of the research on resistant adolescent readers is provided. Findings related to why adolescents are resistant to reading, what teachers say about resistance to reading, how literacy researchers contribute to the discussion, the consequences of adolescent resistance, and instructional implications are outlined.