He said during reading time kids need to be reading. Not doing worksheets, not
doing assignments--reading. (In books at their level that kids find
interesting and engaging)
He did say that teachers should be meeting with small groups or one-on-one with
students. I know when I was at the Reading and Writing Project's summer
institute this year one of my instructors (Kathleen Tolan) talked about the
importance of making sure our small group lessons don't take away from kids'
reading time. She suggested that after we've done our teaching, when we have
kids practice what we've taught in the small group, we have all the other kids
in the group reading while we're checking up on each individual.
I feel like I'm not describing this well. Hopefully you can all read between
the lines ("infer") and make sense even if I'm having a hard time articulating
my thoughts tonight. Anyway, I think Allington would probably be of that mind.
Definitely meet with small groups, but make sure that we don't spend a lot of
time in the group having kids just listen to us, or just watch other kids read.
I'd guess he'd say to talk briefly and get the kids back into reading.
Natasha
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:22:09 -0800
From: Jan Sanders <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
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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
>
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