Scary statistic from ACT report in 2010 - "only 31% of students are performing a a college-and career reading level with respect to successfully understanding complex text!
To help solve this problem a cadre of St. Louis, MO teachers met during 2010-2011 in supporting each other in strategies best coordinated with different texts and units of study. Read this article that really supports what we do in our SRSS classes. The article also suggest new strategies that we could try.
What did you learn from this article? Anything new you'd like to try this year?
Supporting Older Students's Reading. Gutchewsky and Curran. June 2012 Educational Leadership
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/jun12/vol69/num09/Supporting-Older-Students'-Reading.aspx
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