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It is never too late, only more difficult with other students who cannot read or struggle to read. From Read Naturally.com 1. TIME : Additional instruction time must be carved out of the day (scheduled elective, tutoring, learning center). 2. Intenisive Instruction: 1 on 1 turtoring, or small groups 3. Practice: Huge amounts of partner, group, silent and home reading of instructional and independent level books. 4. STUDENT SELF ADVOCACY: adolescents must be stake holders in their self-improvement, have student chart their own daily progress or weekly progress, have student set their own goal.

Older Students with Serious Reading Difficulties: use [|www.readnaturally.com] website offers fluency development program, uses 3 research based strategies to build fluency: teacher modeling, repeated readings, progress monitoring in a simlpe yet effective way.

http://www.inspiration.com/ you can download for a free 30 day trial and get worksheets and ideas, you can use it to teach computer skills and create picture graphs for outlines for stories that the student will begin to write. Click on this file to view a sample of the graph you can create.

another Free 30 day trial download to try is on BoardMaker website, [|www.boardmaker.com] this is typically used with nonverbal children, but teachers could use the boardmaker, to play games, or print out pictures that would go along with a story the student has written.

[|www.projectcriss.com] Creating Independence through the student owned strategies, a list of working strategies for the struggling reader. Will help the student who is struggling in any subject. Free ideas.