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Article Review Salinger, Terry, Helping Older, Struggling Readers, Preventing School Failure, Winter 2003. Summary Much research has been done on increasing reading skills among young children, but very little on helping older readers. Due to the No Child Left Behind initiative, the focus on reading instruction and strategies has been targeted at students below third grade. In fourth grade the attention shifts from learning to read to reading to learn. This is a critical period of time and many students do not have the reading skills required to be successful in reading to learn. The author emphasizes in this article that merely reteaching the same strategies that children learned in earlier grades is not beneficial to them. Older students need new stra