Across three schools in grades 3-6, two schools gave no time to comprehension instruction and the third gave 4 minutes¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? When grades 3-6 were observed in three schools, similarities rather than differences emerged: two schools gave no comprehension instruction and one spent 4 minutes on it. → Dolores Durkin 1978

Evidence¶

Dolores Durkin 1978¶

Dolores Durkin. (1978). What Classroom Observations Reveal About Reading Comprehension Instruction. Technical Report No. 106, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://doi.org/10.1598/rrq.14.4.2

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Sub-Study Two observed 12 teachers in grades 3-6 across three schools (reading observed for 2174 minutes). The article reports the near-total absence of comprehension instruction despite selecting schools expected to offer varied, good programs.

"When data from the three participating schools are compared, similarities rather than differences emerge because, as Table 7 points up, two schools gave no time to comprehension instruction while the third spent a total of 4 minutes on it."

Discussion¶

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