HS English class and in-class reading
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Anonymous
| If it takes until 8th grade for students' reading abilities to match their comprehension, something is off. My kids were assigned nightly reading homework beginning in 4th grade. They would be assigned to read a few chapters of whatever novel the class was reading so they had class time for discussions, presentations, group work, etc. Teachers reading aloud novels does nothing to support reading comprehension. |
Anonymous
Teachers reading around does support comprehension and literacy particularly depending on the text. They can add appropriate inflection, emotion, and even pause. Not to mention that people are often capable of understanding things heard even jf beyond their reading level It’s no different than a person reading and acting out lines for a play versus reading them in a page. |
Anonymous
| It supports listening comprehension. Students have zero stamina for reading because they don't read. When you spend your English classes listening to books read aloud, that does nothing for your reading comprehension. It's no wonder students do terribly on tests of reading comprehension. |
Anonymous
Ladies and gentleman, this here wins the stupid award. Read alouds do nothing for comprehension? What?!? What the f@ckity f@ck?! |
Anonymous
| Reading aloud supports listening comprehension, not reading comprehension. |
Anonymous
This. The result of this is that they hardly read anything for school now because it takes so long to get through a single book. So they’re not reading at home and they’re not reading much of anything at school. They’re not even learning to BS their way through essays about books they skimmed or didn’t finish, which is not a bad life skill to have. |
Anonymous
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Reading aloud helps if students are following along in the text. Actually following along, like with their finger in the paragraph.
-a reading teacher |
Anonymous
| My son was never assigned to read an entire book at all. I pulled him out after 8th grade to put him in Catholic school. He was on chock for the first two years of high school. He had novels to read, papers to write, etc. No redos, actual deadlines, zeros if he was more than a day late with anything. So sad that students aren’t learning much of anything in public school. No actual content and definitely no life skills. |
Anonymous
It is true that what kids can understand when they are read to and what they can understand what they read themselves does not even out until 8th grade. So there is a benefit to reading aloud to them until 8th grade, but not beyond, which is why it should not be happening as a matter of course in high school. |
Anonymous
Do you think teachers should be reading aloud entire books to students until 9th grade? That’s what’s happening in many schools. No actual reading is being done by students. |
Anonymous
Actually, it's parents who should be reading above-grade level material with kids, not teachers. In MCPS the materials are at or below grade level, so there isn't a need for teachers to read aloud. And if the problem is that too many students are below grade level, then they need to offer a separate class for those kids. |
Anonymous
I think these kids can sacrifice one hour of TikTok for nightly reading. Research supports unplugging from devices for at least an hour before bed to sleep better. Great time to practice sustained silent reading. But kids are will only model what they see at home. Kids whose parents are glued to their phones and won’t read. Sad dystopian society we live in today. |
Anonymous
| What about in an AP Lang & AP Lit class? Or an IB English class? Is there reading time set aside each week? Does the teacher read aloud to the students? Or are we just talking about English 9 (oh excuse me, "Honors" English 9) and Honors English 10? |
Anonymous
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And what is even better (sarcasm) is that we English teachers are now asked to adapt all of our assignments to accommodate the students who don’t come to school and haven’t read any of our class novels.
I already gave students time in class to read. They maybe had to read 1/3 of the book at home, and they could also still do the assignments without reading every single page…. But even that is no longer enough. HS English teachers at my school are now told that we need to completely revise our major assignments so the “kids who don’t come and don’t read have a chance.” I wish this was satire. They are essentially asking us to come up with an English curriculum that involves 0 attendance and 0 reading. |
Anonymous
| Previous poster here: I forgot to add that we are obviously also in a school that only offers “Honors” English… |