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Engaging Reluctant Readers - Strategies and Activities for Success

Learn how to entice reluctant readers, including English Language Learners, to read with interactive literacy activities and personalized reading experiences. Discover ways to hook readers through personal connections, choice, challenge, and fun while fostering a culture of accountability in reading. Explore methods to improve reading comprehension and engagement using Lexile levels and diverse reading materials, along with practical strategies for individualized learning. This session will provide practical tips, resources, and recommendations to create a supportive reading environment that motivates all students to read consistently and joyfully.

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Engaging Reluctant Readers - Strategies and Activities for Success

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  1. Enticing Reluctant Readers (Including ELLs) to Read Presenter: Frances Gabor, PhD ESOL Dept. Chair/Independent Studies Teacher New Dominion Alternative Center

  2. New Dominion Alternative CenterIndependent Studies: • Reader’s Notebook DEAR: Drop Everything And Read • Read Aloud • Literacy Activities

  3. How do youHOOK a reluctant reader? PERSONAL TIME CONNECTION SHARE ACCEPTANCE CHOICE CHALLENGE CONVERSATION FUN ACCOUNTABILITY

  4. Personal OWN IT! • INDIVIDULATI CHOICE PERSONAL

  5. Time • Time DEAR: Drop Everything And Read • DEAR PROCEDURE • Sit down quietly at assigned seat • Take out your DEAR BOOK • (If you do not have your DEAR book, get a magazine) • READ QUIETLY until directed to stop • (about 10 min)  • Record the page you are on in your READER’s NOTEBOOK: Reading Log • Wait quietly for day’s instructions

  6. Time

  7. Acceptance Individual Background Knowledge Interest To improve reading = READ!

  8. LEXILE LEVELS Grade Reader Measures, Mid-Year 25th percentile to 75th percentile (IQR) 1 Up to 300L 2 330L to 700L 4 445L to 810L 5 565L to 910L 6 665L to 1000L 7 735L to 1065L 8 805L to 1100L 9 855L to 1165L 10 905L to 1195L 11 and 12 940L to 1210L

  9. Acceptance

  10. Choice Use www.lexile.comto find lexile of a book

  11. Share

  12. Conversation Personal “Special Time” Share Acceptance Choice Connection

  13. Challenge & Accountability • Reader’s Notebook • Reading Log • Reading Conferences • Reading Response • Other: Mini Lessons, Vocabulary, etc. • Two students want or read the same book • Recommendations by others • Immediate 10 min DEAR= prize for raffle (winter holiday) • Banned Books challenge: “Can’t read”

  14. Other & FUN • Achieve3000 • At lexile level, search topics of choice • Non-fiction good for background knowledge (all students, ELLs especially) • Prizes, recognition and incentives (Achieve3000 badges, points, prizes; whole school announcements & prizes; classroom recognition, points & grade) • All students required daily • Importance is amount and improvement ONLY • Read Aloud • No Stress • Example of good reading, asking questions/clarifying information • Make it real- “See it”, “Hear it”, “Touch it”, “Taste it”, “Feel it” • Hunger Games (before movie): Action packed, fast moving, upcoming movie, connect with own life/history/politics/geography • Had a lottery • Locate on a districts on a map • Make up, costumes, actors, “beauty/show” (make up, clothes, tatoos, money) • Reality shows (what’s real or for the audience?) • Video clips as they came out • Before We Were Free: Geography, violent history, based on truth, Latino culture, Spanish language, video clips/historical research/food & drink, personal accounts • Researched and presented 1960 US and Dominican Republic culture, politics • Google earth • Trujillo and Mirabal Sisters • Drank Guava Juice • Learning Spanish vocabulary (cognates, prefix/suffix/Latin roots? • I lived there, my kids went to the school, my husband worked at the embassy; 3 students with DR family, 1/3 of population Latino • Independent Literacy Activities • Banned/Challenged Books-- September • Author Study-- Brochure • Book Share– ANY WAY! Game, Video, Art, Drama, Diorama

  15. References • Thank you to Cedar Point E.S. for the template of their Reader’s Notebook from which this one was created • Allison, Nancy. Middle School Readers: Helping Them Read Widely, Helping Them Read Well. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009. Print.

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