A Recipe for Raising Reading Levels

Seven Simple Practices That Accelerate Student Progress

I was listening to a news story on the radio about how schools are helping struggling readers. One school had taken a group of low-reading 9th graders and put them into a special class. Reading levels in the group ranged from 3rd to 5th grade and, predictably, many kids admitted they really didn’t like to read. As the teacher called the class together to begin the lesson, something caught my attention. Everyone in the class was reading To Kill a Mockingbird.