"Our Books May be Longer but
Not Harder”
About the Aquitaine Reluctant
Reader Series:
Why a Reluctant Reader Series?
Not all
children read at the same level nor do all children enjoy reading. While a good
many children do become excited and engaged in reading, especially in the
primary grades, some are reluctant and disinterested. While a child may not
show a natural interest in reading, this does not mean he/she cannot become a
skilled and even enthusiastic reader. If the child has reached middle grade and
is still disinterested, it’s time to take action.
While any child, young or old, male
or female can be a reluctant reader the largest number of unenthusiastic
readers are adolescent boys. Research shows that a good number of boys who were
avid readers in the elementary grades become disinterested in reading during
their middle school years. However, there are a number of factors that may
contribute to this shift—increasing complexity of material, peer pressure—one
of the primary reasons seems to be they fail to see the connection between
reading and “real” life.
School assignments, such as book
reports, can become stressful for these students as well as parents and
teachers. These children need material that is especially prepared to be relevant
to the curriculum as well as to life. This material must be written to engage
the reluctant reader, using images as well as text and presented in electronic
and paper to fit classroom and leisure reading.
Books for the reluctant reader must
be:
- Relevant to the curriculum (Common Core),
- Factual but engaging,
- Written to pique and hold interest,
- Presented in text and images,
- Available as ebook and in print, and
- Priced to be affordable for the individual student as well as bulk-priced to be attractive to schools.
Aquitaine, Ltd.’s Reluctant Reader
Series, geared to readers in grades 10 and up, fills all these requirements.
Our books have been thoroughly researched and edited by leading scientists and
written by educators and librarians.
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