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“It is my contention that this instructional level construct is a harmful fiction that holds students back. Teachers should teach most students with grade level texts rather than trying to match instructional books to the students’ current reading levels.”
― Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives: How Students' Reading Achievement Has Been Held Back and What We Can Do About It
― Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives: How Students' Reading Achievement Has Been Held Back and What We Can Do About It
“I love this idea of the states being this laboratory of democracy where we try things out in one state, and if it works, we take it someplace else…But if you’re going to do that, you actually have to take what those successful states did. Not just a piece of it. All the hard parts.
(from The Economist article “The reading wars” 6/12/2021)”
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(from The Economist article “The reading wars” 6/12/2021)”
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“What ensued over the next few decades was nothing less than a nationwide search for the holy grail, the one true way to match students to books for reading instruction.”
― Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives: How Students' Reading Achievement Has Been Held Back and What We Can Do About It
― Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives: How Students' Reading Achievement Has Been Held Back and What We Can Do About It
