Video Games to Reading: Reaching Out to Reluctant Readers
Kristie Jolley

Junior high school teacher Kristie Jolley believes students become more willing and motivated to practice reading strategies when they are “comfortable within their realm of literacy.” Background knowledge of video games helps students succeed in understanding and enjoying game-based texts, which she incorporates into her classroom library as encouragement for a habit of reading and as a bridge to increasingly difficult texts. Jolley also offers an overview of popular game-based texts.

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