Teachers should be positive, upbeat, praise students, and teach students to be polite and understanding that everyone make mistakes.

Students have appropriate reading levels. For self-paces, silent reading, teachers need to provide children with books they can read easily. For direct instruction, children should be asked to read material that is challenging, but within their grasp. Books at a child’s frustration level, too hard for them to read on their own or without considerable help from the teacher should only be read aloud.

A strategy for EL and struggle readers when reading class text books at grade level is to bring several books from the library, written at easier levels that cover the same topic.

Teachers who read aloud effectively, with enthusiasm and dramatic effect can affect the reading habits of their students.

Book Clubs and discussion about literature, if done properly they can motivate students to read and provide a life-long appreciation of literature. Teacher’s goal of a book club is to give the students open ended questions so that they will take control over the book discussion. In a literature circle the teacher gives the students a few materials to choose from and students agree on which to read. They discuss before, during and after the book is read. Author studies is where the teacher assigns different groups of students to read books by one author. Then under the teachers guidance the students critically analyze the authors work. Reading material can be in any format; poem, newspaper, magazine etc.

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