Anything teachers can do for the struggling readers in their classroom? Read to them. I know that’s incredibly hard to do now, with standardized testing — that there’s not enough time in the day to do that. But if you can read aloud
And parents, it doesn’t matter if the child is reading on their own, if you continue to read aloud with them each night. And, again, for parents, if the child sees you reading a book for your own pleasure, rather than screaming at them to read for 15 minutes, and then you’re sitting out there, watching TV — if you can model for them that it a profoundly moving experience for you to read a book for yourself, then that, I think, will encourage the child to read.
And beyond that, I don’t know, because I was such a reader myself, you never had to beg me to read. It was how I made sense out of things.