Just back from a trip so missed some of these. I do agree, especially in secondary classrooms. I do think Atwell got two periods/blocks of time for reading and writing in the school she runs. I've always loved Linda Rief's book Seeking Diversity - about a middle school literacy class. It may be out of print but I really loved it. She only had the one class and describes her decisions about how to use time. Made a lot of sense to me. If someone really wants it I could try to summarize a rough outline of her schedule - she did different chunks across a year with different balances. PLEASE DO NOT ALL ASK ME AT THE SAME TIME - REMEMBER OUR LISTSERVE RULES.
I'll just do it....cuz know ing the list I think at least a few will want it. Give me a few days as I'll need to catch up with unloading my car, laundry and all that stuff......... Anyway it's clear at secondary that some of the reading time must come from across the curriculum for sure. And yes of course the english teacher has other very important things to do, writing being not the least!!! So some of the time would have to be outside class. But I'm thinking we must get kids passionately engaged in wanting to read to actually make that happen. So how do we use the time we do have to get the kids hooked and to share some of that reading thru talk and dialogue with peers and hot to self assess that and etc. Sally On 10/1/11 1:42 PM, "Judy Shenker" <jshen...@lcc.ca> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
