EPISODE · Jan 25, 2019 · 24 MIN
Leveling Readers
from Teacher Formation Podcast · host Monica Kowalski
Elementary teachers will be familiar with the tried-and-true practice of assigning students to reading groups and texts based on their demonstrated level of reading ability. But this practice has come under fire in some recent research. In this episode, we discuss the article: “What If ‘Just Right’ Is Just Wrong? The Unintended Consequences of Leveling Readers” by James Hoffman in The Reading Teacher, November/December 2017 (Vol. 71, #3, p. 265-273), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/trtr.1611/full;
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Elementary teachers will be familiar with the tried-and-true practice of assigning students to reading groups and texts based on their demonstrated level of reading ability. But this practice has come under fire in some recent research. In this episode, we discuss the article: “What If ‘Just Right’ Is Just Wrong? The Unintended Consequences of Leveling Readers” by James Hoffman in The Reading Teacher, November/December 2017 (Vol. 71, #3, p. 265-273), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/trtr.1611/full;
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