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 On 9/28/11 4:55 PM, "Kim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone know of any articles or research that prove the effectiveness of > readers workshop? I'd be particularly interested in any research that > compares readers workshop and literacy stations. > Thanks! > > > > Kim > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
