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I have a question regarding a phenomenon I am seeing more
and more in schools and yet I don't see the "payoff".

It seems like more students are being read to in class and
these days the students have little or no
responsibility/incentive to read. I teach ESL, yet many of
my students are in "regular" English as well. When I ask
them what they do in their regular ELA classes they tell me
that the teacher reads them a story and asks questions. My
students, for a variety of reasons, don't/can't/won't follow
along. They don't understand the story or the questions.
When I ask them why they just don't read the story again, to
themselves, they usually answer, "Why? The teacher justs
reads it to us!"

At what point are students supposed to take responsibility
for learning? Why are we making things SO easy for them?
Why don't we require the students to read? We say we do,
but it seems more and more that teacher...See More


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