What? This book covers everything from reading fluency to understanding vocabulary, writing tips, and public speaking. It is divided into four parts: Understanding Struggling Adolescent Readers, Organizing Classroom Contexts that Promote Literacy, Implementing Classroom Instruction for Struggling Adolescent Readers, and Developing School-wide Contexts to Support Achievement.
Why? I chose this text because of the title. I would love to see all my students find joy in reading. I would keep this book handy for when I need help for my struggling learners.
How? Ways to use
the Reading Success for Struggling
Adolescent Learners…
1. I would start off by recognizing
the unique strengths of my students. I could even encourage the students to put
out the strengths they see in themselves and others. When People feel good
about themselves they rebel less and try harder(44).
2. Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)
time in class is strongly encouraged in this text and it suggests creative
acronyms for reading time: DEAR (Drop Everything And Read), FRED (Free Reading
Every Day), RIOT (Reading Is Our Thing), or SAFARI (Students And Faculty All
Reading Independently).
3. Indy 500—students are encouraged
to read in their free time and record pages read for the quarter and the
highest class gets a reward.
Why not? Challenges I can see arising with
these ideas in the classroom… not everyone likes to feel good about themselves or
receive compliments (it makes them feel “funny”). Sometimes SSR is viewed by
students as study hall and it might be used to do homework from other classes.
Kids read at different speeds and do some don’t read at all. The Indy 500 would
be based on student honesty which might be problematic.
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