Reaching Reluctant and Struggling Readers

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Reaching Reluctant - and Struggling - Readers

• KATE Conference October 2007
• Terri Browning
• Oxford High School
• terri.browning_at_usd358.com
• lovepoejrr_at_hotmail.com

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English Strategies
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How did we get here?

• Double enroll
• Out-of-town computer class
• Neither fixed the long term situation

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What did we try first?

• Repeat the class
• Off-track for graduation
• 2nd Chances - Garden City
• Addresses 55
• English II
• Addresses 50

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Why didnt these programs solve our problems?

• Short term solution students often have same
  problems the next year
• Didnt address those students below 50

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Identify the REAL problem.

• According to test results, many of these students
  arent reading or performing at grade level.
• Why not? Is this an ability issue or an interest
  issue?
• Both areas were addressed.

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Selection Process
Test scores Classroom performance Teacher
recommendation Student choice
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Struggling Readers

• 2 common problems
• Skip unknown words
• Dont visualize

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Attacking Vocabulary

• We work specifically on using context clues to
  determine the meaning of unknown words.
• Learn Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, and
  suffixes to assist in decoding unknown words.
  Although we already teach, we worked
  differently.

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Context Clues

• CLOZE activities (sample in packet)
• Context clue activities (teacher and student
  created)

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Greek Latin Vocab

• More review, more often
• Flashcards required
• Vocab Hot Potato
• White boards
• Retest options
• Metron measure Therme heat
• Thermometer heat measure

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Leveled novels High interest novels
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Resources

• Its important to have both RL and IL
  appropriate material to teach from.
• Of equal importance is having appropriate books
  for students to select from for personal,
  practice reading.
• Dont be insulting!

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Townsend Press - Classics
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Classroom Resources

• Jamestown Publishers
• Timed Reading Plus Books 1 thru 10
• Critical Reading Series In the Line of
• Duty, Levels D-F Daredevils, Phemonema
• Levels F-H
• In the Spotlight 2 volumes, levels B-D,
• D-F, F-H, H-J
• In the Science classrooms Weird Science
• In the PE classes Extreme Sports

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Classroom Resources

• McGraw Hill Glencoe Jamestown Education
• Signature Reading Series
• 9 levels, D-L Stop and Visualize
• Hampton-Brown Leveled classroom novels -
• Code Talkers
• The Stone Goddess
• Many others, 3 levels

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• Townsend Press - YA

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The majority of these books seem to be aimed at
Middle School
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High InterestNovels, series authors
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The Everworld Series
The Bluford Series
Gail Giles
Will Hobbs
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
The Perfect Shot
Chris Crutcher
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Do you have
frustrated readers? those students who really
want to read at a higher level than they can
independently and are offended by leveled
novels?
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Struggling, Motivated Readers
Have you seen the variety of SAT vocabulary
classic and Young Adult novels?
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Accessible
Kaplan SAT score-raising classics
When I didnt know a word, I really did check
the definition provided. I wouldnt have looked
in the dictionary, so it definitely
helped! Jessie, senior
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wiley.com Karen Chapman
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SAT Smart Novels
Stephen D. Ring
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Difficulties visualizing?
Teach literary terms with a movie, then apply
to reading.
Aladdin The Matrix North by Northwest
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Film in the classroom

• NCTE has several great books with ideas on how to
  teach movies.

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Film in the classroom

• Im using Great Films and How to Teach Them by
  Wiliam V. Costanzo.
• It contains material, including
• study guides, on the following
• films Casablanca, North by
• Northwest, To Kill a Mockingbird,
• The Godfather, The Matrix,
• and 9 more.

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Difficulties visualizing?

• Signature Reading series
• Stop, drop, and draw
• Books on tape/cd

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Student created graphic novels
The Stone Goddess and Code Talkers

• Summarizing paraphrasing
• Sequencing
• Main Ideas
• Dialoguing
• Research skills
• Computer skills

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Book Reports

• The bane of the struggling readers existence!
• Still trying to kill two birds with one stone?
  Stop it!!

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Interview Book Report

• Less threatening, informal situation
• More informative
• You can identify and talk through problem areas
  in the novel
• Gives quality teacher/student time

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• Comprehension Activities
• www.quia.com

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Hot Potato Half-Baked Software
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