Don't forget--reading (and reading instruction) takes place in more of the
day than what you might list in your lesson plans than "reading." They are
reading in all the content areas in addition to your language arts
instruction. I would be seriously worried about any classroom in which the
students read less than two hours a day! Two hours is actually a "minimum"
to my way of thinking, grades 1 though 6.
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Reader's Workshop Research
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 <[email protected]>:
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
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