And the other thing we'd do well to remember is the crucial piece in his
work reminding us that the material used absolutely needs to be at an
independent/high instructional level
in order for the child to continue to grow as a reader. If she's reading
"below grade level" then it's very likely that all of the content books are
too high, so little growth is likely there. Unless the books in readers'
workshop are carefully matched to the readers, we can't expect the kind of
growth that needs to take place. Plus, there has to be quality instruction.
It so disappoints me in the [hopefully] rare instances when a teacher
creates what amounts to little more than DEAR, calls it readers' workshop,
and then complains that workshop "doesn't work." So...be sure when you're
looking at the research that you look beyond the conclusions to see how the
research was set up, how the terms are defined, etcetera. And PLEASE, some
of you, find a collaborator and do this research so teachers in ten years
aren't still asking, "Where's the beef?"
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-----Original message-----
From: Sally Thomas <sally.thom...@verizon.net>
To: mosaic listserve <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 02:52:51 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Reader's Workshop Research
Allington's research in various places including the big big study he did
with Peter Johnston found that the most effective teachers (and that
included test scores although much much more) had their students actually
reading text for much longer times. I believe he would advocate as much as
2 hours a day of reading "just right" texts....both in literacy and content
area contexts. Workshop is structured to get kids immersed in texts for
long periods of time. Any other approach may be doing some things that are
valuable but not nearly enough actual engaged reading time with texts.
That research is very strong!
Sally
On 9/28/11 4:55 PM, "Kim" <kmara...@aol.com> wrote:
Does anyone know of any articles or research that prove the effectiveness
of
readers workshop? I'd be particularly interested in any research that
compares readers workshop and literacy stations.
Thanks!
Kim
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