Best Practices in Reading

Reading

The general consensus of reading specialists, reading scholars, reading panels, reading teachers and others are as follows:

More		Less

Read aloud to students daily		Round-robin reading by students

Independent reading		Emphasis on whole-class reading

Use of trade books, picture books, magazines		Primary dependence on basal, textbook, literature book

Student choice of reading material		Teacher selection of reading material


Teacher modeling of skills and strategies		Lecturing, worksheets, workbooks

Content area reading		Lecturing and worksheets

Use of higher-level questions (application, synthesis, evaluation)		Use of lower-level questions (primarily recall)

Use of critical and creative thinking		Less rote learning, memorization

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