Schoolwide Enrichment Model-Reading, or SEM-R, is one of the components of SEM. The research-based approach enhances and enriches the current literacy practices of the school, but does not replace those practices. The three goals of SEM-R include: increasing enjoyment in and attitudes about reading; encouraging students to pursue appropriately challenging independent reading levels; and, improving comprehension and fluency. Because the approach encourages students to use their interests, not just teacher guidance, to help determine their text choices, students often show more enjoyment and better attitudes toward reading. SEM-R allows all students to have more ownership and accountability with reading and learning. Students learn to choose books that are appropriately challenging and slightly above their instructional level, and, in turn, become more active in monitoring their own reading. Through SEM-R, all students are explicitly exposed to higher order thinking skills through Book Hooks in Phase I, conferences and SIR (Supported Independent Reading) in Phase II, and interest and choice activities in Phase III. By making reading personal through student interest and more thoughtful through higher order thinking, SEM-R allows all students to benefit from practices that enhance and enrich literacy.