Finding the right reading material for children with learning disabilities in basic reading, reading comprehension, or dyslexia is a challenge. This is especially true for "tweenaged" boys ages eight through twelve. For this group, books must include content kids of this age can relate to and be written at a lower grade level. These books are referred to as high interest, low reading level books.
High Interest Low Reading Level Books are Hard to Find
It is unfortunate, but reading materials for children with learning disabilities are often hard to find. Hi Lo reading books, for example, are typically published by small publishers or by specialty publishers who carry materials designed for use in special education programs.
Tweener Press Adventure Series
Max Elliot Anderson's Tweener Press Adventure Series books were written with those kids in mind. Max describes himself as "never liking to read as a child," and he writes his books to speak to readers in that place. North Woods Poachers is an adventure story with a positive, spiritual values-based theme that includes elements helpful to reluctant readers such as:
- low level vocabulary; and
- action based sentences that focus less on description and more on action - a structure that researchers and advocates of literacy in males have found helpful in engaging boys.
- A majority of sentences are simply structured. Some sentences contain additional phrases and clauses, but these are used sparingly.
About North Woods Poachers
North Woods Poachers is the story of two families of relatives vacationing in a cabin in the north woods. Like many real-life boys his age, Andy isn't looking forward to the trip. He sees it as yet another boring year with his cousins doing the same things they do every year. As his family crosses the Canadian border, police are stopping and checking cars. Andy and his cousins learn that border patrol officers are looking for an organized ring of poachers in connection with crimes in the area. The excitement builds as the cousins begin to notice strange things happening in the Canadian wilds near their cabin. The cousins launch their own investigations into the strange goings on and soon find themselves knee deep in a mystery.
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