ABSTRACT: This action research study was designed to analyze how choice-giving strategies would affect motivation to read, in an English class, to a group of 8th graders at the private catholic high school Instituto Salesiano Pedro Justo Berrio, in Medellin. There were 10 teenage participants, with a medium high level of English. The strategies were related to content, process and product, developed during the course of two cycles. The data was collected with a survey on motivation to read applied two times, two focus groups, personal observations and an interview with the Cooperating Teacher. The results gathered from this research showed how choice- giving strategies can increase motivation to read as it is targeted to students' preferences.