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Older Students and Literacy

305Summary 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.

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