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Get your reluctant readers engaged with fiction

"Sidestreets" Resource guide PDF
Are you looking for new ways to get your reluctant readers engaged with fiction? The "Sidestreets" Resource PDF guide offers a number of ways to engage with text. These work especially well with the many shorter hi-low titles that are on the market at the moment.

Take a look at this sample (#19):
"Try this activity to get students working with a form of writing many of them encounter every day — script-writing! Have students choose a scene from the novel and write it as a script for a movie, TV show or documentary. Encourage them to think about how some of their favourite books have been made into movies, like The Fault in Our Stars or the Hunger Games series."

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