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Reading Intervention Activities and Teen-Friendly Texts for Grades 6–12 | Scholastic Magazines+

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Engage and empower striving readers with Scholastic Action. Teen-friendly texts at accessible levels meet reading intervention activities to boost literacy.

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Students work in pairs to create stories based on a series of images. One student describes what they see in the first image, the partner continues with the second image, and so on. This activity develops vocabulary, narrative skills, and collaborative speaking. Encourage use of transition words and descriptive language.

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Pair ESOL students with native English speakers or advanced learners for structured interviews. Provide question prompts about hobbies, family, culture, and future goals. Students practice formal and informal register while building confidence in conversational English. Record interviews for self-reflection.

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Students create short digital stories (3-5 minutes) about their journey to America, family traditions, or personal goals using tools like FlipGrid or Adobe Spark. This integrates technology with language practice, allowing students to work on pronunciation, pacing, and narrative structure while sharing their unique perspectives.

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Create a scavenger hunt where students find examples of academic vocabulary in different school subjects. Students photograph or write down examples of words like 'analyze,' 'synthesize,' 'hypothesis' in math, science, and social studies contexts. Discuss how the same words function across disciplines.

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Take current news articles and have students rewrite them at different reading levels - from complex to simplified versions. This teaches students to identify main ideas, supporting details, and helps them understand how language complexity can be adjusted while maintaining meaning. Great for developing summarization skills.

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Students create collaborative stories where each person adds a sentence, but must follow specific grammar rules (e.g., must include a compound sentence, past perfect tense, or conditional clause). This makes grammar practice engaging and contextual while building narrative skills and creativity.

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Students research and present on how a concept from their home culture translates to American culture (family structures, celebrations, food, education). This builds academic presentation skills, research abilities, and cross-cultural understanding while validating students' backgrounds.

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Students design bookmarks featuring reading strategies (predicting, questioning, summarizing, visualizing) with examples and visual cues. They use these bookmarks while reading different texts and reflect on which strategies work best for different types of materials.

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Introduce structured debate formats with topics relevant to students' lives (school policies, community issues, global topics). Focus on research skills, argument organization, and persuasive language. Provide sentence frames and transition words to support academic discourse development.

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Adapt traditional literature circles for ESOL learners with graphic organizers, vocabulary pre-teaching, and role rotation (discussion director, vocabulary enricher, connector, illustrator). Choose books with multicultural themes or immigrant experiences that resonate with students' backgrounds.

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Students maintain ongoing portfolios documenting their language growth through writing samples, recorded speaking activities, reading reflections, and self-assessments. Include goal-setting activities and progress tracking to help students visualize their improvement over time.

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Students analyze the same story or information presented in different formats (text, video, infographic, podcast) and compare how meaning is conveyed through different media. This develops critical thinking skills and helps students understand how to extract information from various sources.