Noninstruction, transition, and listening to oral reading consumed almost 31 percent of fourth-grade teachers' reading-period time¶
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q2 i? Three categories not concerned with instruction—Noninstruction, Transition, and Listens: to oral reading—combined consumed almost 31 percent of observed fourth-grade teachers' time. → Dolores Durkin 1978
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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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Time-allocation analysis of the 24 fourth-grade classrooms. The article reports the three categories as "Noninstruction," "Transition," and "Listens: to oral reading," with Noninstruction at 10.72 percent (largely correcting papers at desk) and round-robin oral reading at 9.76 percent.
"Three categories in Table 4 have not yet been mentioned but, combined, they Insert Table 4 about here. consumed almost 31 percent of the teachers' time."
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Related Claims¶
- Social studies periods gave little preparation for reading (1.73 percent) and focused assessment questions on facts — related
- Repeated listening improves oral reading fluency in second-grade students, with Listening Only outgaining Reading While Listening and Reading Only — related
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Noninstruction, transition, and listening to oral reading consumed almost 31 percent of fourth-grade teachers' reading-period time |
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Noninstruction, transition, and listening to oral reading consumed almost 31 percent of fourth-grade teachers' reading-period time |
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