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Using Foreign Films to Engage Reluctant Readers In her book Engaging Reluctant Readers Through Foreign Films, Kerry P. Holmes recounts a Saturday evening, one where she intended to put al… Started by Karen Cameron	0	May 10
Strategies for Struggling Readers: Conquering a book you don’t like We’ve all had to struggle through books we didn’t like—maybe even books we deplored. When it comes to our students, we don’t worry too much… Started by Karen Cameron	0	Apr 22
Burying the Book Report: 5 More Book Report Alternatives We’ve all been assigned our fair share of book reports in our day. We may have even assigned one or two of them ourselves. Love ‘em or l… Started by Karen Cameron	2	Apr 15 Reply by Karen Cameron
Spark It: A free reading assessment tool for parents and teachers It’s unfortunate, but every year we encounter struggling readers who have been lost in the shuffle or flown under the “reading radar” for y… Started by Karen Cameron	6	Apr 11 Reply by Karen Cameron
What the Kardashians Taught Me About Reading Instruction Slavoj Žižek is one of our favorite philosophers and cultural critics for a variety of reasons. For one, he’ll talk about anything—the Kard… Started by Karen Cameron	0	Apr 2
Engaging reluctant readers with a multi-media reading experience Reviewers have called it gimmicky, but we’re confident that even your most reluctant readers will stand by Patrick Carman’s multi-media Ske… Started by Karen Cameron	2	Apr 1 Reply by Karen Cameron
If anyone is looking for reading-related resources It’s March and we can think of at least two reasons to be happy about it: First, we’re a mere 15 days away from spring. Second, March is Na… Started by Karen Cameron	0	Mar 5
Reading Strategies that Transcend the Classroom If the classroom is truly the training ground for life, it only makes sense that we would use reading strategies that mimic the way we read… Started by Karen Cameron	0	Mar 4
Reading Teachers: Book Wink has heard your students’ cries for help Yes, yes, you already know that March is National Reading Month, a time when your students “fall in love with reading all over again.” Righ… Started by Karen Cameron	2	Mar 1 Reply by Karen Cameron
Fostering student-initiated learning with literacy work stations Imagine a classroom where the teacher works closely with five students at the guided reading table. Meanwhile, 20 of their peers are on tas… Started by Karen Cameron	0	Feb 5