I have just learned that with the CCSS, there is an emphasis on reading
excerpts. Do others of you have that impression for the middle school?
I think there is something completely different about reading an
entire novel. I object to a class activity that encourages reading
just a chapter (or worse, just a page) out of a novel. I think that
might be part of the reading less and doing skills more that you
mention, Renee.
(I am not talking about students sampling books to decide what to read.
I am talking about an attitude that people should only read a few
pages out of a novel.)
As a sub in many different classes these days, I see kids actually
reading less and less and less, and "doing skills" more and more and
more. I would propose that this is one of the problems.
Renee
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