Hi Marilyn, Very good question and one asked constantly by educators at all levels. Don't have an fix all answer but some of the things I do is to give handouts that are in the form of guided notes. I have the students pick the key points out of the text and put that information on the form. We then discuss it in class. Points are given for these "homework" assignments. I find for the most part my students complete them and are ready to discuss them because I have reduced the volume of their reading down to extracting the key points out of the texts. Gary