> > I have not worked directly with middle schoolers or in a middle school. My > only experience is K-6. But I still can't picture a school where kids read > less than 2 hours a day. Say they have a class called "reading" for 50 > minutes. I would hope they would be reading at least 35 minutes in there, > although not always by themselves. That 35 minutes would include the > reading they do with peers or teachers and would commonly be in the "direct > instruction" phase of that class. Then say they had a 75 minutes class in > social studies, which our middle schoolers do. I think it's reasonable to > expect at least 35 minutes there reading, alone or with others. Science, > same thing. Math, less reading--maybe 15 minutes. Language arts in a 75 > minutes period, probably easily 40 minutes, including during the writing > process. Then reading at home of course. Based on this conservative > estimate, a child in that school would be reading 3 and 1/2 hours a day in > school. So at least two hours a day would be easily attained. And if your > content area teachers are well-educated, they will be teaching the reading > strategies kids need to be successful readers during their class time. I > totally get what Allington says -- if our kids are reading less than 2 hours > a day, we need to carefully examine what they are doing to see if it's all > high-quality. If not, maybe we need to make better decisions because they > really do need active engagement in reading in order to become better > readers. >
> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
