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What Reading Means: Do You Really Know?

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What Reading Means Secondary language arts teacher training programs almost exclusively focus on reading comprehension, with maybe a little fluency and vocabulary thrown into the mix. While this may seem to fit the majority of secondary readers, it doesn’t include all of them. It privileges those who have had neurotypical, middle-class, and/or native-English experiences. Those…

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Helping Students Become 3-D Readers

My students set reading goals every six weeks, and over the course of the year, I want them to become readers who read along the x-, y-, and z-axes. If those math terms send chills up your spine, think of it as horizontal, vertical, and diagonal reading. All three dimensions are important to becoming a well…

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