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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

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Middle school boy looking at graphic novel in the library

Motivation and Engagement

Motivating Reluctant Adolescent Readers

How can you motivate adolescents who have never turned on to the magic of reading? Tutoring teenagers is as much about building self-confidence as teaching skills. Low self-image and feelings of powerlessness trouble many unmotivated adolescents.