HS English class and in-class reading

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's your child's experience regarding in-class reading? My DS says his class spends about 45 minutes reading with minor "interruptions" from the teacher. Is this normal? Are students no longer told to read the book at home for homework? Just checking. TIA

Many teachers now are expecting that almost all work for the course will be done in-class for equity reasons. I am an AP Lang teacher and communicate with hundreds of other English teachers on the group Facebook page. I don't agree with this, just reporting...

Equity is far more important than helping students learn and develop skills. It's best to lower the bar for all because it reduces the gap optics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's not true. Reading aloud can enable close reading skills. It can be done in such a way as to emphasize new vocabulary terms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's your child's experience regarding in-class reading? My DS says his class spends about 45 minutes reading with minor "interruptions" from the teacher. Is this normal? Are students no longer told to read the book at home for homework? Just checking. TIA

Many teachers now are expecting that almost all work for the course will be done in-class for equity reasons. I am an AP Lang teacher and communicate with hundreds of other English teachers on the group Facebook page. I don't agree with this, just reporting...

Equity is far more important than helping students learn and develop skills. It's best to lower the bar for all because it reduces the gap optics.

Wait: is that "woke", too?

[Anonymous]

This is such a waste of class time. I've been surprised my child's class does this too.