Which Reading Model Would Best Guide Our School Improvement Efforts?
The Simple View? Scarborough's Reading Rope? The Active View of Reading? Something else?
(Audience: ALL)
There are so many take aways in Tim Shanahan's blog post from April 29th! He discusses the many models for reading, how they help us understand how reading works, and the strengths and weaknesses of each. This post would make a great close read and discussion for any professional development with your staff about reading.
The ideas in this quote should be very familiar some of you. We ask our districts to create Standards of Practice around time, materials and instruction in the literacy block. Why?
"When it comes to what we can do directly with children to improve reading achievement there are three things that make a difference: the amount of instruction that we provide, the content or curriculum of that instruction, and the quality of the delivery of that content. Those variables are especially productive because they represent variables that if altered will change the students’ experience."