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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to figure out what you can possibly mean by this.

I do know that, at times, my middle schooler has had books where they've read a section at home, where my kid is reading every word himself, and then read a section a school where the students are taking turns or different roles or even listening to the teacher read to allow for in depth discussion.  For example, they read a Shakespeare play, and one kid reads Romeo, and one Juliet.  There are also times when teachers read aloud (or they could use an audiobook, but I haven't seen it) so that kids can practice their oral comprehension and get a model of high quality fluency.

This is hardly a new fangled thing.  In fact there's been a move in education towards doing less of this, and MCPS certainly does less round robin reading than I did as a kid.  [/quote]

According to the posts on this listserv, a couple of things were happening:

1.  Teachers were instructing students only to read every other chapter on their own, at home, stating that this was a more reasonable expectation of independent reading.
2.  Teachers were playing books on tape in class in lieu of reading the text.

My impression was that it was NOT what you've mentioned above, PP, but that's my question.  This isn't my own child's experience but was stated by several listserv posters.  I was curious to know if other parents had run across this with their MS/HS kids.[/quote]

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