Achieving with Struggling Readers

Like so many struggling readers, James believed that he would never learn to read. Years of failure and embarrassment had left him feeling inwardly stupid and outwardly angry. But life changed for James in eighth grade, when he gained three years in reading and moved from a fourth-grade to a seventh-grade reading level. His anger fell away and he became excited about reading. Research tells us that once children fall well behind in reading by second grade, it's very difficult for them to catch up. Yet we have found that below-level readers are routinely given far too many ...