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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe I'm the rogue one here, but I'd actually say the ELA expectations in elementary are way too low.  Obviously there needs to be wraparound support first and foremost, all the way up, to generate the strongest possible reading from everyone.

But regardless of achievement level, they should all be reading skill-appropriate text (including as many actual books as possible) in school All.  The.  Time.  At every possible moment.  And constantly practicing first accurately representing words, then following directions, then summarizing, then finding main ideas, then looking for meaning and motivation, then comparing different texts with one another. Every last paragraph they encounter should be approached this way, including in social studies and science, and especially in grades 4 and 5.  Reading, as other have pointed out here, is the single skill without which nothing else is possible.  We shouldn't waste a single moment without doing it thoughtfully and well.

At the moment I count at least two hours in DC's school day that are not related to instruction.  Roughly one of those is lunch and recess, but the other often gets used for homeroomy things.  Personally I'd rather see that dedicated to small-group reteaching while everyone else READS.[/quote]

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