[LIT] redifining reading

[Literacy Teacher]

Lori, 
  I really connected with your statement below. Especially the part about "becoming more successful students." While I think I know enough about your and your district from your posts here and elsewhere, to know that your teaching keeps reading and writing whole and authentic, I sometimes struggle with the expectations that teachers help children become better "students" which may mean getting "better at reading a specific text or doing a specific task" rather than becoming "stronger more confident readers and writers". I am shcoked by how many teachers blatantly refuse to meet children's needs and instead demand that children meet the needs of the teacher. 
  
ljackson at gwtc.net wrote:
  I am shocked to see how narrowly focused on literature our standards are in the middle years, at a time when (IMO) our struggling readers most need support accessing content related reading so that they can be more successful students.

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