This article from The Integrated Curriculum Classroom blog presents many useful suggestions for incorporating stories in verse into your classroom—and this is a format that you may find especially helpful with reluctant readers, who, as the article says, “find themselves more confident with fewer words on a page and more willing to dig into longer, more intense books.” I’m delighted to find Little Dog, Lost, one of my own novels in verse, mentioned in the piece, and you may want to introduce it and another of my verse novels, Little Cat’s Luck, to your students as well.