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Blast from the past: Originally posted February 2, 2013; re-issued October 12, 2024. Over the past 15 years, I have issued several blogs concerning the value of teaching students to read more challenging texts than we have used in instructi...
Blast from the Past: This blog entry first posted on June 22, 2019, and was re-issued on September 21, 2024. The reason I’ve resurrected this one is because recently many of my podcasts have been greeted by jeers on social media claiming that pretty much any research-proven approach to reading instruction would be better replaced by opportunities for independent reading in the classroom. I agree that the more students read the better readers they are likely to become, but that is not best accomplished by sacrificing instructional time since instruction does more for reading achievement g...
Parent question: What does the research say about students and “one-minute reads” for homework. My son is expected to read the same passage every night for a week, and we mark how many words he reads per minute. We get a new pa...
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