Older Students and Literacy

Summary and Key Messages

How Can We Transform Older Kids Into Readers? After watching this show, you will:

• Identify strategies educators and parents can use to help motivate older students to continue reading and become lifelong readers.
  
• Recognize factors that make students resistant to reading.
  
• Observe innovative approaches used by teachers, librarians, and parents to enhance literacy development for older readers.
• Hear practical advice from experts and learn about innovative literacy activities for kids!
  

Visit model literacy programs and discover:

• How to help older children discover the joy of reading;
• How programs outside school build older kids' literacy skills; and
• How adolescents can develop as readers by helping younger children read.

Viewers' Guides: 

Be sure to review and print the great resources we've compiled to to have on hand as you watch the programs: 

• Q & A - Find out how  the experts fielded some of the questions posed during the program.

• Booklists
  - Top Ten Books for Young Adults
  - Books Useful for Learning More About Adolescent Literacy

• Online Journal Articles  - Read online articles  for educators and parents.

• Related Websites - Visit these websites to find suggestions for working with older children.
  

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