Reading

 

Link to GSSD LLI Training and Information

http://blogs.gssd.ca/lli/

Each school has a GSSD LLI Team ready to support you in the successful implementation and maitainance of LLI. The team consists of your school’s SSC, Literacy Coach, and Ed Psych. Initially, a written proposal needs to be created by your school and submited to the Superintendant of Student Student Services and the Superintendant of Curriculum and Instruction. Prior to that, you may want to involve the designated Literacy Coach, SSC and Ed Psych about how to proceed. This link will provide you with information to support your successful journey with Level Literacy Intervention.

 

LLi Efficacy Study

 

Scholastic Resources for Middle Years (Struggling Readers)

 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 inclkude 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 hte topic as well as introductory information presented.  Each section opens with a photographic spread that includes a brief introduction to the themse 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 thr evidence.  Reading cues such as: prompts call outs, highlighted words, diagrams, and primary sources.  This series contains field guides and tools.

Sprint Reading : Scholastic Sprint Reading engages striving readers with motivating books aligned to your core curriculum in specific Lexile® ranges. This effective reading intervention program uses paperbacks and Students Workbooks to teach the strategies readers need to further scaffold decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The Teacher’s Guide provides educators with comprehensive, practical plans for teaching essential skills for each title.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/sprint_reading/index.htm

 

 

Graphic Novels

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.

Graphic Novels Series and Publishers

 

Websites, Blogs and Lists:

 

 

Capstone Publishers

Capstone Publishers

Nonfiction very high-interest easy-to-read books; current topics and content area.

 

Illustrated Classics

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.

 

 

Currents Series

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.

 

High Noon Books

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.

Noon Books 

3rd Grade Readibility list

4th Grade Readibility list

 

Orca Publishers

Orca Publishers

Novels for reluctant readers in the Orca Currents, Orca Sports and Orca Soundings series. This series is designed for high school age students with lower reading levels. The content is mature.

http://www.orcabook.com/client/client_pages/Orca_Currents_Info.cfm

http://www.orcabook.com/showproducts.cfm?FullCat=34

http://www.orcabook.com/client/client_pages/Orca_Soundings_Info.cfm

 

High Interest Publishers

 

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.

http://www.hip-books.com/jrnovels.php

http://www.hip-books.com/srnovels.php

http://www.hip-books.com/hipedgenovels.php

http://www.hip-books.com/hipfantasy.php