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At our continuation high school, reading full length novels can often be quite challenging for my reluctant readers. Therefore, as their teacher, I need to think outside of the box and find titles that I know they'll want to read. In class, students will have open access to these "anchor texts" which will help them interact with the unit theme and think critically about how the characters in the various novels deal with the specific implications of that theme. To determine which books would be most engaging, I had my students respond to a survey in which they reviewed a synopsis of a series of texts and selected three they were most interested in reading. The featured texts for this project came from the results of this survey. When I can get the students to "buy in" to a novel that will interest them, the results are always outstanding! Following reading these texts, I have my students hold their own "book club" reading circles in which they discuss what they've read. If they're reading a text they can connect with, their discussion are always much deeper and far more interesting. I see higher levels of student engagement and, ultimately, deeper critical thinking which helps them meet their state standard for graduation.

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At our continuation high school, reading full length novels can often be quite challenging for my reluctant readers. Therefore, as their teacher, I need to think outside of the box and find titles that I know they'll want to read. In class, students will have open access to these "anchor texts" which will help them interact with the unit theme and think critically about how the characters in the various novels deal with the specific implications of that theme. To determine which books would be most engaging, I had my students respond to a survey in which they reviewed a synopsis of a series of texts and selected three they were most interested in reading. The featured texts for this project came from the results of this survey. When I can get the students to "buy in" to a novel that will interest them, the results are always outstanding! Following reading these texts, I have my students hold their own "book club" reading circles in which they discuss what they've read. If they're reading a text they can connect with, their discussion are always much deeper and far more interesting. I see higher levels of student engagement and, ultimately, deeper critical thinking which helps them meet their state standard for graduation.

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