Devil’s advocate: pleasure reading in no way gives students the skills needed to show gains on state tests, where they have to read, dissect, and analyze the driest, least engaging “passages” ever written for human consumption
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Research consistently shows a link between test scores and pleasure reading. Kids who read the most typically score higher than kids who don’t read that much.
Independent reading and pleasure reading isn’t the only thing teachers do in class. There is room for both the teaching of skills and reading for pleasure.
Well yeah, kids who are good at an activity tend to enjoy doing that activity. They still need to learn how to read before they’ll enjoy doing it independently.
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BUT how will you ensure that students are mastering the necessary skills to show growth on the state tests?!?
(parroting what I’m told… I hate the test)