Strategies for Engaging Adolescent Readers
Jeffrey Wilhelm
Fall Workshop 2000

Jeff Wilhelm, author of You Gotta BE the Book and Action Strategies for Readers, involved the audience of middle school, high school, and college teachers in a variety of drama, art, and critical thinking activities that engage students in their reading.

Wilhelm activities:
Directions for Hotseat activity

The Next Day: how middle school, high school, and college teachers applied some of the activities

All participants were involved in small group role-play at tables.	Role-play activity "Sukey" (seated) and her conscience (standing)	Story-mapping demonstration
There were many opportunities to try out the activities with small groups.	A "radio talk show caller" gives Sukey some advice.	Creating a story map
Using the children's book Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert San Souci as the material for many of the demonstration activities.	Creating a group poem from one line of each of the individual poems. Here the writers decide on an effective order for each of their lines.	143 Minnesota English/language arts teacher gained many effective and practical strategies from Jeff Wilhelm's workshop