We should be reading rich texts to students from day one right across the curriculum and making these texts available when they are able to tackle them for themselves, even if that requires scaffolding. After all, engagement with texts is a won?derful way to develop oral comprehension in preparation for the day when students will be reading these rich texts by themselves.
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Reading fluency is not an activity or skill in and of itself. We don’t ‘do’ Fluency. Fluency is the product of strong development across a number of domains including decoding/word recognition, phonemic awareness, vocabulary acquisition, and background knowledge.
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A study found that students who read texts in print scored significantly better on the reading comprehension test than students who read the texts digitally. Empirical evidence also indicates that affordances of screen devices might negatively impact cognitive and emotional aspects of reading.
You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kin...
Once you know what you’ll focus on, you’ll need a daily structure for staying focused on it. You may not be able to eliminate context switching from your day entirely, but these strategies will help you cut down on the number of times you have to shift your attention:
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