Social studies periods gave little preparation for reading (1.73 percent) and focused assessment questions on facts¶

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q2 i? During social studies, only 1.73 percent of time (48 minutes) went to preparing children to read a chapter, and assessment questions focused mostly on facts, many trivial. → 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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Observational timing of 2775 minutes of social studies instruction in the fourth-grade sub-study. The article had assumed teachers would spend considerable time preparing children with terms, chapter sketches, and guiding questions; the data contradicted this.

"The figure of 1.73 percent (48 minutes) for "Comprehension: preparation for reading" is evidence of this being another unrealistic assumption."

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