High Interest/Low Vocabulary
This page identifies possible resources for struggling Middle Years learners. These lists include high interest – low vocabulary.
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Possible Resources:
H-I-P Publishing - High Interest Publishing
(NOTE: Ensure books are previewed for grade/age appropriate content, particularily HIP Senior)
High Interest Publishing has four series of novels designed to bring success to students who don’t like to read. Our award-winning HIP Senior series offers twenty-four high-interest, low-vocabulary novels suitable for striving readers in grades 6 to 12 who read at a grade 3-4 level. Our HIP Junior series includes fifteen novels created for students in grades 3 to 6 who read at a grade 2 level. Our eight HIP Edge novels offer a gritty series of readability-controlled novels for senior high school readers. Our HIP Fantasy novels are a series of three of high-action stories that feature dragons, heroism and magic … all at a grade 3 reading level. Our comprehensive teacher’s guides make it easy to use HIP novels in full class or small-group situations.
The HIP website includes free material for teachers, including readers’ theater plays, and special pages for parents to help them with reading development for their children at home. Use the blue “Resources” box or the upper bar to navigate around our website. Use the right-side buttons for a PDF order form, or go directly to our online store by clicking on a flag at the top.
HIP also published Readers Theatre scripts.
Orca Publishers
Novels for reluctant readers in the Orca Currents, Orca Sports and Orca Soundings series.
NEW from High Noon – Age 14+, reading level grade 1
3rd Grade Readibility list
4th Grade Readibility list
Currents Series:
Readability Level: 4th/5th Grade Readability
These high-interest novels highlight contemporary themes of especial interest for middle-school students, including bullying, rebellion, forgiveness, gangs, judging by appearance, and family relationships.
Pigboy: A boring field trip turns dangerous.
Rebel’s Tag: The way of the rebel has it’s price.
See No Evil: Some secrets are too dangerous to keep.
Mirror Image: What is there beneath the surface of an image?
The Shade: What is the ghost girl trying to tell Safira?
Note: Contain references to Canada.
Illustrated Classics
Readability Level: 4th/5th Grade Readability
Subject/Genre: Classic Literature
Introduce literature with these classic tales retold, with attractive color illustrations. Educators adapted each title using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system. Each book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classic. Each book is softcover, 70 pages.
Includes author biography and character map.
Reading Level 4th-5th.
Books are available individually, or as a complete 20-book set.
Capstone Publishers
Nonfiction very high-interest easy-to-read books; current topics and content area.
Graphic Novels
Middle Years students find graphic novels motivating and engaging. To view a list of graphic novel, please visit Graphic Novel page in this website.
Content Area Levelled Books
J Appleseed – Canadian site with Saskatchewan curriculum content area resources that are levelled.
Scholastic
Scholastic has several selections for Struggling Readers:
Fast Track A new resource for struggling, reluctant, and ESL students in grades 4–8 who need extra support to improve literacy achievement. Fast Track books engage students and help increase reading ability and confidence by hitting both interest level and reading level.
Second Chance Reading offers struggling students a second chance to master basic reading, writing, and speaking strategies using books written just for them.
Greatest Sports Heroes and Way of the Warrior both offer Grade Levels 4–7 with an Interest Level in 7–12. High Interest Books have something to offer every reluctant reader. Every 48-page book is carefully written to satisfy a young teenager’s voracious appetite for knowledge.
Torque: Action Sports, Cool Rides, Motorcycles: These books offer Reading Levels Grades 2-3 with and Interest Level of Grade 3-7. They feature engaging layouts that include diagrams and labels and vivid photographs. Text features also include table of contents, glossary, websites and an index.
24/7 Behind the Headlines: Target is for Reading Levels 5-7 Grades 7-12. This series includes a journalistic design that uses bold graphics and dramatic photography. Ithe-moment reporting allows readers to experience historic events as they unfold. These books have a highly visual font matter includes facts and figures about the topic as well as introductory information presented. Each section opens with a photographic spread that includes a brief introduction to the themes addresses in that section. Back matter includes a timeline, glossary, resources section and index. Includes themes such as forensics, spies, and medical mysteries.
24/7 Behind the Scenes Reading Level Grade 5 – 7, Interest Level Grade 8-12. This series contains background information to build content area knowledge. Chapter summaries and questions recap the evidence. Reading cues such as: prompts call outs, highlighted words, diagrams, and primary sources. This series contains field guides and tools.
McGraw-Hill
The Wild Side: Reading level grade 4- 6, Interest level grade 4-12. Nonfiction. Comprehension questions reinforce literal understanding, while critical thinking questions encourage students to consider author’s purpose, identify main idea, summarize and paraphrase, make inferences, identify cause and effect,self-assessment, and make predictions. Topics include: Angry Animals, Beyond Belief, Crime and Punishment, Extreme Sports, etc.
Critical Reading Series: Reading level grade 6-8, Interest level grade 6-12. Nonfiction. Comprehension questions reinforce literal understanding, while critical thinking questions encourage students to consider author’s purpose, identify main idea, summarize and paraphrase, make inferences, identify cause and effect, self-assessment, and make predictions. Topics include: Disasters, Heroes, Monsters, Rescued, Daredevils, etc.
The Outer Edge: Reading level grade 2-4 Interest level grade 6-12. Nonfiction – series is based on true stories. Comprehension questions reinforce literal understanding, while critical thinking questions encourage students to consider author’s purpose, identify main idea, summarize and paraphrase, make inferences, identify cause and effect, self-assessment, and make predictions.Topics include: Uncommon Courage, Still Unsolved, Fateful Journeys, Danger Zone, etc.
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