Reluctant+Readers

 Welcome to Hooking the Reluctant Reader!

[|Engage me or Enrage me]

[|Starting the Fire] 

Important [|new resource]

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Kierra Parrott blogs about the [|Reluctant Reader's Bill of Rights]. How does this match with your classroom practices?

Consider this reluctant reader's interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. Does he demonstrate his understanding of the text?  media type="youtube" key="zemJLUmSj8Q" height="344" width="425"  In Sarah Kajder's text //**Bringing the Outside In**//, she talks about visual tools to motivate reluctant readers. In the first chapter, she asks the reader to consider this: [|What does reading look like, anyway?]

Click [|here]  for Lorna Collier's piece about the shift to 21st Century Literacies.

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[|More information:]

Linda Starr directs you to a slew of strategies for hooking reluctant readers in this article from [|Education World.]

Listen to Kylene Beers give her ideas about reluctant readers.

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[|The Stenhouse blog] provides an abundance of suggestions for working with reluctant readers, choosing books, and a podcast of Kimberly Hill Campbell, author of Less is More, discussing the [|importance of short text.]


 * How to Find Books?**

[|Grreat Books] [|LibraryThing] [|Goodreads] [|Shelfari]

A middle school class made this video about [|technology]

High interest/low reading level book publishers listed [|here]and [|here]

**Web 2.0 Tools For new users:** check out Jennifer Carrier Dorman's resources on her wikispace. Scroll through the sidebar to learn about digital storytelling, blogging, wikis and podcasting.


 * Movie Trailers**: You can compile your own list of [|books that have been made into movies] and search for video clips on [|YouTube.] //**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;">Please preview to be sure content is appropriate for your students. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; font-weight: normal;">

Another great site for help with technology in the classroom <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Not able to use YouTube in your classroom? Click [|here] for a solution! <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> To think about: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 132%;">[|Bill Page's] article about at risk students. **//