Lifers: Learning from At-Risk Adolescent Readers

by Pamela N. Mueller

Pam Mueller researched, observed, interviewed, and worked closely with At-Risk students, and presents their stories in their own words to support her plea for a more effective literacy curriculum. Mueller offers solutions through three reading workshops that she and her colleagues implemented.

Genres: Education

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 2001

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite books about reading. Ms. Mueller lets students talk and reminds teachers that reading is very personal. When a student says she doesn't like to read, it's often because of several years of pain and stigma and avoidance.

[Ami Pendley · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is nothing earth shattering in this book if you are a proponent of the workshop model of teaching reading. The key ideas of the workshop, student choice, time for authentic reading, modeling, and clear instruction work for struggling readers, even those who have struggled their entire school lives. Mueller illustrates this through the true stories of adolescents who come into 9th grade unable to read and defeated by all the failed attempts at intervention they have been subjected to.

[Nikki Cochran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love part two!