READING ISSUES/PROBLEMS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADES

Reaching Struggling Readers in the Intermediate Grades with Books they Can and Want to Read

Reaching Struggling Readers in the Intermediate Grades with Books they Can and Want to Read

Introduction

In this article, Rog & Kropp (2005) has mentioned challenges and issues for students with their academic reading skills. In the starting Rog & Kropp has mentioned a case of Charles and his skills of reading in a classroom. Who is a struggling reader. The reading education field in general and the programs Rog & Kropp worked with in particular view comprehension training as occurring through the directed reading lesson (a series of events surrounding a textual selection from the children's reader), and the skills sequences (exercises aimed at promoting what are considered specific "skills," such as finding the main idea or following directions).

Charles is an average reader. His problems can be diagnosed. If Charles wants to boost both the quantity and quality of his reading, he should refer reading materials that he can read and will want to read. In this regard, Rog & Kropp work has focused on the directed reading lesson because it is the most traditional format for reading instruction and because it consumes a major portion of the instructional time devoted to reading. This assumption is made by looking at the amount of material present in the teacher's guides and by teachers' own reports about how they spend instructional time during reading periods. The implicit objective of a directed reading lesson is to provide students with meaningful encounters with text so that they can build habits of comprehending. The typical lesson plan followed by teachers involves preparing students for an upcoming selection, having students read the selection, and finally, a discussion of the selection. From examination of these components in randomly selected ...