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Our Novi High School department adopted daily independent reading after a book study of Kelly Gallagher's indispensable Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do about It. The only holdouts were my struggling readers (high school juniors reading at a fourth-grade level). They were simply . . . uninterested. Whatever they were getting out of my instruction of reading, they were not gaining any love for it-the one lesson they most needed to internalize.
One day, I brought in my collection of graphic novels and offered them...