I AGREE, PROVIDING KIDS TIME TO READ IS PROBABLY THE SINGLE MOST VALUABLE USE OF CLASS TIME BUT TWO HOURS A DAY???? IN MIDDLE SCHOOL, I ONLY HAVE MY ENGLISH STUDENTS ONE HOUR - 7 DAYS OUT OF 10. DOESN'T GIVING KIDS MAJORITY OF IN CLASS TIME TO READ REDUCE THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD TEACHER AN DGOOD TEACHING?
JUDY Judy Shenker Learning Enrichment And Development Coordinator Coordinatrice en enrichissement et développement de l'apprentissage Lower Canada College 4090, avenue Royal Montréal (Québec) H4A 2M5 Téléphone (514) 482-9797 ext. 333 Fax (514) 482-0195 Site web www.lcc.ca Students first L'élève avant tout Celebrating 15 years of coeducation LCC célèbre 15 ans d'éducation mixte On 11-10-01 3:38 PM, "wr...@centurytel.net" <wr...@centurytel.net> wrote: >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 >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Mosaic mailing list >Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org > >Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
