Integrating Instructional-Level Social Studies Trade Books for Struggling Readers in Upper Elementary Grades
This article really caught my interest because I am currently interning in a 5th grade classroom, while the students are reading Sign of the Beaver. Just like the opening scenario of this article, some of the students in my classroom are not on grade level like others are. My teacher actually has groups of students reading different books because of their diverse levels. I think this is an excellent idea! It doesn’t single anyone out nor does it embarrass anyone because they are all in groups working on their assigned book as a team. It doesn’t make any sense to force students who aren’t at a certain level to read the same books everyone else reads. I agree that teachers can find related books on different levels for his/her students. “As educators, we need to challenge these negative factors by appropriately pacing low
readers through instructional-level material of high literary quality”. This quote caught my eye the most from the article. There are tons of ways to keep students “caught-up” with the same material, but on different reading levels.
