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Luke Morin's avatar

I thought this was an interesting listen—thanks for posting. I really appreciate the attention to engaging fluency with complex text. That has not been a common practice and I think there’s a lot of knowledge and skill that needs to be built in this area. My wondering: did I understand correctly that the pilot used somewhat random texts instead of aligning with the core text students were studying in class? I know the pilot was looking for breadth, but you can definitely still achieve that with supplemental texts. This was an important topic, thanks for posting on it!

Justin Baeder, PhD's avatar

Yes, they took 10 texts from the curriculum, but it didn’t seem like a knowledge-building unit. The rest were random.

Stephen Wolfe's avatar

This has popped up in my social media feed a few times recently. I've listened to the interview and read the paper, but I can't seem to find a definitive time frame. Are the 5 reads over a week? I cannot imagine them being one day, but I wanted to clarify since this routine seems to support our learners in multiple ways.