Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Low-ability readers Ms. Reagan is a middle school reading coach who often reads with a huge number of low-ability readers during the day. When she asks her students whether they think they are good readers, most of them tell her, "yes," they read well. What her middle school students do not realize is that they only read on a third grade level. This could explain why these students do not well in their academic classes. What should Ms. Reagan do to help her students learn what a good reader looks like and plan instructions to help them reach a higher level of reading? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Ms. Regan should inform the students of their correct reading level. The students need to know what level they are on, what level they should be on, and what strategies they can do to get there. Ms. Regan should meet with them and explain all of that and explain to the students that not being on correct reading grade level is not a bad thing as long as you are taking the measures to make improvements. She should ask them to provide a goal for reading and share what they think they can do to obtain their goal. She should express that she is invested in their education and know that they are extremely smart and capable of getting on grade level but it will take hard work and dedication. She should than have them write their goals, what they need to do to make gains, and provide them with strategies she feel will assist. The students should place them in an area where they can look at it daily to remind them of what they need to do. She should also get the phones where they can hear themselves read. She should model read and then ask them which one sounded better and why. Then provide more encouragement that they can read like that also and she was not born reading this way it took time, hard work, and dedication.