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The Ritual of Reading in the Classroom
In classrooms where the students can read for themselves, reading aloud often falls off the daily schedule. But it's a ritual well worth keeping—for the sake of literacy, the moral imagination, classroom bonds, and so much more. Long-time Heights teacher Tom Steenson encourages the teachers tending that flame, or wanting to rekindle it, in their own classrooms.
Chapters:
2:08 Goals of reading aloud in the classroom
4:44 The artist sees, then helps others to see
11:47 Books that aren't landing
15:10 The read-aloud routine, scene-setting
18:35 Reading in a high school classroom
22:27 Separating…
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