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50 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Readers

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Heidi Crumrine

  • 50 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Readers

88 pages
Grade Readability: 0
Interest Age: 5 to 14
2023
ISBN: 9798885543408

Find concrete ways to support unwilling, unengaged, or struggling readers! This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers reach reluctant readers.

50 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Readers highlights:

  • Provides 50 instructional strategies to support and motivate students
  • Builds students’ fluency, stamina, and interest in reading
  • Offers grade-level differentiation and important reminders for each strategy
  • Reduces teacher stress and minimises planning time

Have your students mastered the art of avoiding reading? Written by English teacher and literacy expert Heidi Crumrine, 50 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Readers gives educators ideas for how to provide a variety of reading opportunities for students who don’t like to read. These quick, accessible strategies are classroom-tested and are perfect for getting readers engaged and excited. From building literacy to fostering a love of reading, this book offers K–12 teachers the support they need to help reluctant readers thrive.

"Heidi Crumrine offers busy teachers concrete, research-based strategies to help us?support our students as readers. Her suggestions are creative, thoughtful, and realistic, with notes for how to adapt to a variety of grade levels and contexts. This is the kind of book you'll come back to whenever you need a fresh idea to reinvigorate?your reading routines."
- Sydney Chaffee, Director of Humanities & Humanities Teacher, Codman Academy, Dorchester, Massachusetts

"Weaving her own struggles with and passion for reading into this inspiring and practical book, Heidi Crumrine provides 50 accessible strategies to motivate learners in PK-12 to read, think about, and discuss diverse texts. Throughout the book, Crumrine extols the power of student choice to bring reluctant readers into the reading life. She differentiates the strategies for three grade ranges and includes tips that guide teachers' practice and decisions, inviting them to reflect on when to use a strategy to facilitate students' growth in reading."
- Laura Robb, Author and Education Consultant, Winchester, Virginia