Books for Reluctant Readers
HIP Reading Assessment
Covering Grades 3-8
The HIP Reading is a graded set of 200-word texts which, administered one-on-one, enables a teacher to determine a child's reading level and understand his/her strengths and weaknesses as a reader. The book also includes:
- An overview of how assessment should guide instruction
- The HIP “3-minute� reading assessments
- Suggestions for specific instruction to deal with student needs
Includes rights to reproduce for school use.
Welcome to HIP Books
High Interest Publishing now offers three series of novels designed to bring success to struggling readers. Our award-winning HIP Senior series includes twenty-four high-interest, low-vocabulary novels suitable for striving readers in grades 6 to 12 who read at a grade 3-4 level. Our HIP Junior series now includes a dozen novels created for students in grades 3 to 6 who read at a grade 2 level. Our HIP Edge novels introduce a new series of readability-controlled novels for senior high readers.
Reviews of the Edge books have been universally enthusiastic. "All the books have sharp, witty, up-to-date dialogue, fast moving plots and powerful themes that encircle the lives of today's urban teens." -Resource Links
Coming October 1: two new HIP Edge novels - The Edge is Burning by Paul Kropp, a gripping tale about arson, and Breaking Free by Jennifer Mulrine, a gritty first novel by a young writer who is just sixteen years old.
All HIP novels feature exciting stories with realistic characters and situations that grab the reader's interest quickly. Our editing and readability standards ensure that these books will continue to hold that interest page after page.
This website also includes free material for teachers, including readers' theater plays, and for parents to help them with reading development at home.
