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This is a great place for parent activities (ways to involve families) about encouraging reluctant readers. Tip number nine talks about having children use read-along audio cassettes. Melton Pages, J. Learning Tip #11 - Reluctant Readers: Turning "Won't Read" Children Into "Wanna Read" Children. Retrieved from:

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International Digital Children's Library -- this website is a digital children's library; it is great for a homepage on classroom computers!

[|http://en.childrenslibrary.org/]

Digital Booktalk -- Video book trailers that help to make introductions to books really enjoyable!

[|http://digitalbooktalk.com/]

Solution for reluctant readers -- Tale to Tail program at a library. Children read to trained dogs once a month. The children like it because the dogs just listen. It's nice to have someone listen to them read without pointing out that they missed a word or stopping them to ask questions.

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A brief clip about getting to know your students. We can help reluctant readers by figuring out what they like. Once they are open to us, we can begin to help them. This in turn means that we need to be open as well. This is an interesting, short little clip.

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