Ready, Set, Match! Texts for Struggling Readers

Elizabeth Swaggerty & Faison PowersEast Carolina University

Know Your Students

Interest; LevelEl Deafo: 3-9; 2-3

After Happily Ever After: 3-6; 2-3Amulet: 3-7; 3

Lunch Lady: 3-5; 2-3Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: 3-5; 3

Whatever After: 3-7; 2-3Middle School: 5-9; 4

Bone: 5-8; 3Ghostopolis: 5-9; 3Bad Island: 5-9; 3

Island Series: 3-7; 2-3Dear Dumb Diary: 3-5,;3

Geronimo Stilton: 3-5; 2-3Double Play at Short: 3-5; 3

Judy Moody: 3-5; 3

Know Your Texts

ResourcesBOOK TRAILERS:

https://booktrailers4kidsandya.wordpress.com/ (book trailers compiled by a school librarian in New

Zealand)

http://www.scholastic.com/teacher/videos/teacher-videos.htm

Scholastic (videos, books and series)

FIND BOOKS:

Scholastic Book Wizard: www.scholastic.com/bookwizard

Hi-lo (high interest, low readability) book lists (e.g., http://www.ala.org/alsc/compubs/booklists/Hi-

Lo_Booklist)

Jon Scieszka’s http://guysread.com/

James Pattereson’s http://www.readkiddoread.com/

DIGITAL BOOKS:

Tumblebooks: http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/about_tumblebooks.aspx

Scholastic Storia: http://www.scholastic.com/storia-school/

Unite for Literacy: http://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

WEBSITES FOR KIDS:

Kids Sports Illustrated: http://www.sikids.com/

Kids National Geographic: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Swaggerty, E. (2015). Selecting texts for upper elementary students who avoid reading or find reading

difficult. In Deborah Wooten and Bernice Cullinan’s (Eds.) Children’s literature in the reading program:

An invitation to read, 4th edition. (p. 150-166). Newark, DE: International Literacy Association.

Faison Powers

POWERSF10@students.ecu.edu

Elizabeth Swaggerty

swaggertye@ecu.edu