This is a grass-roots account of how, in one term, two teachers have taken one class’s reading in school beyond the confines of DEAR and have transformed it into a central, natural and wholly pleasurable part of the life of a classroom.
Why We Felt The Need For The Change?
As the new teachers of this class wanting to establish a ‘reading classroom’, we felt we needed to find more time in the school day for private reading than is allowed by the usual daily fifteen to twenty minutes for DEAR. Thus, when children in our class arrive in the morning, they are not now immediately faced with a…
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The Literacy Echo Chamber 