Learning to Love Reading

Lorrie McNeill, 42, a teacher at Jonesboro Middle School in Georgia, allows her students to choose their own reading materials.

"In New York City many public and private elementary schools and some middle schools already employ versions of reading workshop. Starting this fall, the school district in Chappaqua, N.Y., is setting aside 40 minutes every other day for all sixth, seventh and eighth graders to read books of their own choosing.

In September students in Seattle’s public middle schools will also begin choosing most of their own books. And in Chicago the public school district has had a pilot program in place since 2006 in 31 of its 483 elementary schools to give students in grades 6, 7 and 8 more control over what they read. Chicago officials will consider whether to expand the program once they review its results."

[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/30reading.html]




R.I.P. Reading Rainbow

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