high interest easy readers?
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In a message dated 8/9/02 6:04:20 AM, ElissaJC@... writes:
<< Does anyone have
ideas on easy readers that are a little more interesting for tweens? (That
would inolve babysitting, horses or Mary Kate and Ashley? LOL ) >>
They do exist. Check remedial reading supply sites.
When I taught remedial reading one sad year long, long ago, we had a series
of paperback books at second grade level (a formula involving sentence length
and average word length), high school interest level. They were good books!
Science fiction, cars, danger, adventure, plane crashes. They would still
take a week to read, so the kids didn't have the impression of them being
easy, and the stories were not shallow as to character, theme and all that
good analytical stuff. I would read them aloud sometimes.
One involved an emergency situation with a tourniquet. Two non-reading 13
year olds ditched school one day, played in an abandoned house, and one got
badly punctured with window class still in the frame. The other took his
shirt off, put pressure on the wound with part of it and made a tourniquet
with the other half, and they walked until they got a ride to the hospital,
just a few blocks from there.
The principal was really angry they'd been ditching. I was always really
proud that they'd used something they'd learned in a remedial reading class
in a real-life situation, which I thought beat the heck out of being in
school that afternoon.
I'll look and see if those books or their successors are still around.
Sandra
<< Does anyone have
ideas on easy readers that are a little more interesting for tweens? (That
would inolve babysitting, horses or Mary Kate and Ashley? LOL ) >>
They do exist. Check remedial reading supply sites.
When I taught remedial reading one sad year long, long ago, we had a series
of paperback books at second grade level (a formula involving sentence length
and average word length), high school interest level. They were good books!
Science fiction, cars, danger, adventure, plane crashes. They would still
take a week to read, so the kids didn't have the impression of them being
easy, and the stories were not shallow as to character, theme and all that
good analytical stuff. I would read them aloud sometimes.
One involved an emergency situation with a tourniquet. Two non-reading 13
year olds ditched school one day, played in an abandoned house, and one got
badly punctured with window class still in the frame. The other took his
shirt off, put pressure on the wound with part of it and made a tourniquet
with the other half, and they walked until they got a ride to the hospital,
just a few blocks from there.
The principal was really angry they'd been ditching. I was always really
proud that they'd used something they'd learned in a remedial reading class
in a real-life situation, which I thought beat the heck out of being in
school that afternoon.
I'll look and see if those books or their successors are still around.
Sandra
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Thank you!!!
~Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein
~Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein