What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools … - Kelly Gallagher

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What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

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I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

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Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

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Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?

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