Leveling Readers

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...

An episode of the Teacher Formation Podcast podcast, hosted by Monica Kowalski, titled "Leveling Readers" was published on January 25, 2019 and runs 24 minutes.

January 25, 2019 ·24m · Teacher Formation Podcast

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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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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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