Help your students succeed as readers in today's high-stakes testing environment with Inspiring Reading Success: Interest and Motivation in an Age of High-Stakes Testing . This provocative text addresses this gap with a new perspective on reading instruction that goes beyond the realms of teacher content knowledge and methodology. You'll learn how motivation and interest can enhance reading instruction for all students—and you'll get strategies to increase reading success.
To learn teaching approaches that will spur progress for all types of readers, download Chapter 2 of Inspiring Reading Success : High–Interest Reading Leaves No Child Behind
I'd skim read the first half of this document about her research with "striving readers" and how they overcame their difficulties, and go to page 20 where she discusses getting reading matching children's interests and outlines some strategies eg inventory questionnaire, bio-poems, rhythm walks, readers theatre... Possibly of interest ?
The main message, which we know, is that if a reader is passionately interested in a subject they will perservere with reading - the 5 year old who knows all the names of dinosaurs is a classic example... So, access to relevant books, free choice, along with plenty of reading time...
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