Even with your best efforts to make your child comfortable with reading, they may still experience reading anxiety or reluctance. Some may even have unresolved reading trauma from years of past reading failures.
On October 19th, I will be speaking at the Close the Reading Gap Summit. This free event is for parents and teachers. This year’s annual summit topic is Helping the Reluctant Reader.
Children who resist reading are not lazy. They are not misbehaving. They are often frustrated and sick of doing it “wrong,” or not making progress. You can turn this around! Helping a reluctant reader succeed often hinges on things that aren’t difficult, if you know what to do and have a few extra tools in your toolbox. Come to the summit and find out how to “flip the script!”
As reading and writing go hand in hand, there will also be a special section on how to turn reluctant writers into Brave Writers!
Hurry on over and register. You won’t want to miss this!
Just click this link.
Speakers Lineup by Day 2026
Day One: Working With Reluctant Readers.
Dr. Louisa Moats, Nora Chahbazi, Emily Gibbons, and Dr. Marnie Ginsberg
Day Two: Turning Reluctant Writers into Brave Writers.
Julie Bogart
Day Three: Understanding the psychology of reading refusal: keeping things bite-sized, scaffolding, and flipping the script.
Dr. Melanie Wilson, Melanie Jeffrey, and Sarah Collins
Day Four: Teaching so They Can’t Fail
Kurt Engelmann, Sherrie Rain
Day Five: Fun with Words: Generating Interest in Reading with Morphology and Poetry
Dr. Pete Bowers and Dr. Tim Rasinski
Day Six: Enticing Books: Your Secret Weapon
Mia Wenjen, Joanne Kaminski, Lori Josephson
Day Seven: More Amazing Strategies for Winning Them Over
Emily Laidlaw, Kim Yarson
