Wow!
Do any of you have classes in which students read two hours a day?
I take this to mean the students are doing the reading. Not the
teacher reading to the student.
Jan
Quoting Sally Thomas <sally.thom...@verizon.net>:
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
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