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Individualizing Reading Instruction The American Institutes of Research Report "Lessons From the Alabama Reading Initiative," mentioned in the News above, explains that a one-size-fits-all approach to reading instruction won’t work. Instead, reading programs must be responsive and flexible enough to meet the needs of all students. These resources suggest options for flexible and differentiated reading instruction you can use in the classroom. "Book Club Plus: A Conceptual Framework to Organize Literacy Instruction" (E) from Language Arts describes an ongoing organizational framework that engages diverse readers by combining Book Clubs with related content units and strategy instruction. In the Voices from the Middle article "Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning" (M), author Laura Robb describes how she and a colleague met the needs of the various students they taught by designing a Holocaust unit that used multiple texts of varying reading levels. The English Journal article "We Believe in the Individual" (M-S) provides two examples of classroom-proven, research-based activities that can be easily adapt to the needs of a variety of learners: reading memos for independent reading and alternative book reports. "Creating a Context for Developmental English" (C), from Teaching English in the Two-Year College, outlines a program that includes reading workshop with a range of related classroom activities including book talks and critical reading strategies.
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