1. Create a classroom culture that supports reading

• Encourage students to read books of their own choice
• Provide students with access to a variety of books
• Provide independent reading time

2. Make use of small group instruction

• Match individual students within groups to appropriate texts
• Encourage students to provide peer support
• Have students work collaboratively on projects

3. Teach reading skills in functional ways

• Offer instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness in the context of reading books
• Provide students with structured feedback
• Use coaching to scaffold instruction

4. Empower students to feel that they are confident readers

• Encourage students to view reading as a challenge they can master
• Help students set realistic reading goals
• Work with families to provide support

5. Facilitate reading opportunities

• Set aside space for reading that students can use independently
• Reserve large amounts of time for independent reading
• Help children learn to deal with distractions to reading

6. Build intrinsic motivation in students

• Allow children time to read for pleasure
• Encourage families to establish family reading hours
• Encourage students to read texts for meaning and to reflect on what they read

7. Use extrinsic motivation purposefully

• Tie extrinsic rewards to intrinsic motivation to read
• Provide reading-related rewards such as books
• Use incentives to help children achieve reading goals

8. Communicate with parents

• Coordinate with parents on supporting children's reading
• Hold Family Reading Nights at school
• Provide handouts and parent education on workshops on motivating children to read

9. Be enthusiastic about reading

• Serve as a reading role model
• Let students see that you read for pleasure
• Share selections from your personal reading with students

10. Make reading a social activity--allow students to share what they have read

• Make use of Literature Circles
• Sponsor book clubs
• Provide time for class discussion of books