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TitleStruggling Readers: “What Do You Want to Read About?”
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From http://languagemagazine.com

Diana Kennedy writes about a student of hers, a struggling reader, and what to do to encourage her to read: “So, what to do in our weekly session? More drills on basic sound-spelling correspondence? I’m thinking that is not going to do anything but confirm her understanding of reading as hard, thankless work. So instead, after checking in with her about schoolwork and homework and the social drama that is high school, I ask her a simple question: what do you want to read about today?” Read how this approach is working here: http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=124922

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