Litteracy ideas

• Teaching students to choose books that are on their appropriate reading level. Make sure that you first guide them in this process but also give them room to learn what books they are comfortable reading, which books they need help reading and which books are far too hard for them.
• Instill a passion for reading in all students, even struggling readers. If they love reading they are much more inclined to read on their own and to put more effort into decoding books that may be a little challenging for them. 
• Get to know students at the beginning of the year to learn their interests and to learn about them as a person not just a learner. The interests will also help determine how easy a text is for the student. Background knowledge can make a book at a higher reading level more accessable.
• Be sure to not only include narrative text but also informational texts. Informational texts are extremely underrepresented in classrooms which makes students less likely to read them in their free time. I can definitely attest to that. I was very rarely exposed to informational texts outside of textbooks and now almost have a fear of reading informational texts.