1/19/2024 0 Comments Minutes read![]() They revisit texts to clarify their understanding, bring evidence to discussions, and offer support in compositions. Choose from more than 100 full-length, authentic trade books at each grade – Try Connect to Books Today However, the intent of the 7-Minute Challenge is to increase students’ reading as part of instruction. Recreational reading has an important place in students’ lives, just as teachers’ read-alouds have a role in classrooms. ![]() This reading is embedded in lessons and curricular activities it is not recreational. The purpose of the 7-Minute Challenge is for students to make a habit of reading to acquire knowledge. Whether they are informational or narrative, texts communicate knowledge. One of our goals as teachers is to help our students increase their use of texts as a source of information and learning. Why Increase the Amount That Students Read? The 7-Minute Challenge is one of the seven actions teachers can take to increase their students’ capacity to read the complex text advocated by the Common Core State Standards (Hiebert, August 16, 2012)³.Īn immediate response from teachers is “but how am I going to increase students’ reading when the school day is already so full?” Before illustrating some ways in which teachers can increase reading in an already-full school curriculum, I want to emphasize the purpose of this increased reading. ![]() The goal of the 7-Minute Reading Challenge is to increase the amount students read daily by 7 minutes which can make a huge difference in students’ knowledge acquisition and capacity for reading complex text. In fact, as little as an additional 7 minutes of reading per day has been shown to differentiate classrooms in which students read well from those in which students read less well². Even a little more reading time can go a long way. In the typical classroom, students spend less than 20 percent of the reading/language arts block reading¹. ![]()
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