Did he say what that 2 hours of reading should be? Pure reading? I envision some to take it as lots of phonics and skills lessons. Jan
On 11/10/09 12:27 PM, "Domina.Natasha" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just heard Richard Allington speak on Saturday and he said that 2 hours of > reading per day will mean that a struggling reader doesn't fall further > behind. If we want them to close the gap and catch up to their peers they > should be reading even more than that. (He was talking about RtI so maybe his > new book on RtI would have more information about that.) > Natasha > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 24 > Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:11:07 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [MOSAIC] RtI > To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email > Group"<[email protected]> > Message-ID: > > <111020090411.16339.4AF8E7DB0005A9DE00003FD322218683269B0A02D29B9B0EBF0A9B079D > [email protected]> > > > This group really helped answer questions from me about universal screeners > for RtI. Now I'm wondering about when my middle school starts RtI. I think > that will happen next fall. > > I have read that students who are two, three, or four years behind in their > reading level by middle school need an additional 90 hours of reading time??? > instruction??? every day. Can anyone point me to something authoritative that > asserts this? > > It seems as if we're going to go to half measures, and students who need > additional help with get maybe 45 minutes a couple of times a week. > > I fear that RtI will not be successful at my school because we will not put > the time into additional support for students. > > Thanks for any information you can give me. > Jan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
