This may be hard task for some younger readers. Especially if they get their emotions into the story and agree or disagree with the narrator.

This as college students we all know to be true! Reading as you grow keeps your brain working and it keeps to motivated to keep reading.

I think as a student and as a future educator I want to know why I have to read something and who will it benefit me in my education. When you give students the heads up it sometimes may make them more apt to do the reading, like you're not hiding anything from them.

This allows the literature to be a separate third party. Not entangled with the issue or sensitivity.

I agree with this statement. In high school I took a fantasy literature class and my teacher had to fight every year to keep it and get new books for the over whelming amount of students that wanted to take it.

This could be a great way to show students that everything they are learning is important and it will be relevant again. I wish teachers did this more often and drew on the thing we had already learned in some other classes. It would have/does make the education and the materials your re learning more appealing.

This is an important skill, to be able to tell a story but also tell it in front of people. This is a great way ti get your students speaking about something that they may not like or may be new to them. Much better than just lecturing about the topic to them.

This is important for students to see that an image can make a world of difference. When reading a description it is easier to come up with your own thought/design in your head. However, when an author provides and image or picture it leaves no room for personal interpretation.

It is good for 5th graders to understand and be able to pull out the differences from different works. I always found it interesting to read plays in high school because you got to read all he behind the scenes stuff too like, stage directions, dialogue, and settings.

This is a great skill to develop early on in readers. Good readers ask questions bout the text they are reading. Even now in college we are taught to go back and look at the material for different questions or thoughts.

'What if' questions can be a lot of fun with students depending on their experiences and values. I would be eager to see the different answers for student's questions on "what if the the boys actually saw the wolf each time he cried for help?"

This may be a tough task depending on the age of your students as well. It can be hard, even for adults, to look at a story from a different perspective and see the problem or solution.

It is hard to decided how you're going to teach a brand new subject to a class. I really enjoy seeing he different ways teachers approach a new subject. Its refreshing to see there are not so many restrictions on teaching fables to students.

I loved being read to as a child and I think this is why I find it so important to read to my little cousins, children i babysit for, and even the students in fieldwork. Students and children really do get more form children's books when they are read to the child.

I am currently working with a 1st grader on reading and writing. A lot of the books she chooses to read are too hard to for her to understand due to the language. By the time she gets to the end of the page she forgot what that page was talking about because it took so much of her energy just to decode the words. She agrees that she gets more forms he books when I read them to her and then we can discuss them.

I totally agree with this definition. It is so important for children's books to have an equal importance eon the text as well as the pictures. Pictures can provide excellent assistance for understanding the content.

I love seeing things in the classroom, like this app, that are easy for teachers to use. And even easy enough for the students to use and engage in their own learning and the process. Good find Dr. McVerry!

I completely agree with the thought that our students need free writing time. It is so important to let students express themselves without restraints or guidelines. That is where students really learn to love the art of writing.

This is so frustrating and I completely understand how this feels. I commend the teachers who keep pushing for the betterment of their students even when it isn't easy and you hit every road block thrown at you. "Jennifer" knew and could see that her students could benefit from the instruction if she could just give it to them.

After seeing how many issues go into just one classroom I don't blame these student for having so many trust issues. I would have a hard time being productive too with all these different changes and hostility in my classroom. I think its up to the teacher and administration to help promote the correct educational and coping strategies, although there are districts and schools across the country where this may just not happen.

Reading these student descriptions of their own neighborhood really breaks my heart. It makes me nervous as to what these students go home to. This is why it is so important that we, as teachers, provide the best environment we can while these students are at school with us.

This sentence brings something to mind for me that i would not normally consider an issue for book groups; social interaction. This is a huge over-looked aspect of any working group. Some students these days really struggle with appropriate social interaction due to many different things; technology, disorders, social media, etc.

I love the thought of having students write their own goals for themselves and their peers. This puts the responsibility and encouragement on the student themselves. Starting this at such a young age can help the students increase accountability for their time and work.

This is so true. I am learning in my observations that lots of teachers will administer the assessments then become so focused on what the students can't do( basals) rather than what they can work up to with their students.

I completely agree with this thought and i would love to see this happen more and more as students advance through their schooling, From my own personal experience I had no experience taking ownership for my work throughout elementary, middle, and even high school. Once I hit college it was sink or swim time. I feel if student had the opportunities as they experience each new grade to take ownership of their work then most would be more successful going into college where a majority the education relies solely on the student.

I wonder if the 15 minute is only within the classroom or if these researchers consider students who read independently at home as well. I also wonder who the outliers were in this study and if there was a slight variaiton of times between grades in the intermediate level.

I think this is great that the study is basically handing tools to students about how to handle this situation when you're in it and may have a classmate or know someone who is "gender variant or transgender" and also tools for students who may be experiencing gender identity issues themselves. This is also a great way to set it in students heads that being different is okay, and if they are learning this in school then they are all learning it. Whereas, now it is up to parents to have this conversation with their children about gender and gender roles. And we all know hoe parents can be with their own ideas and placing those in their children's heads.

IT hurts me to read this and see that other children are being bullied just because of the way hey want to express myself. I have cousins who are twins, 9 years old, they are both in hip hop dance classes. Audrey wanted to take it because she likes dance, her twin brother, Aiden, wanted to take it because he loves his sister and wants to do fun things with her. Now he is being bullied in his school because "dance is a girl thing". It really break my heart to see children being knocked down at such a young age with no real understanding as to why this is happening.

I am proud to see how much society has changed and how we can be so accepting just 49 years later. Yes, we still have a long way to go but there are now clubs, living communities, social groups, and parades strictly for people who identify as LGBTQ. Boy, was Garfinkel wrong!

It is so important for these students to step-up and say this isn't working for me and heres what we can try instead. I understand why these students are not speaking though; they feel alienated by their education and are sometimes placed in Special Education and are even more discouraged.

I'm wondering if these texts are more "dis-abling" now to adolescent African American males not only because of policy decisions but also because the view points, goals, and desires of these males have changed in the past years. Possibly more aggressive attitudes, different ideals at home? Could be a result of generations not finding the correct texts to send them in a successful academic direction.

I completely agree that if the students are more interested int he text then they would be more invented in their work and strive for better success. I wonder why there are such limited texts that would work adolescent African American males?

We see it so often lately that teachers want to continue the old ways and just teach the way they know to, or have always taught. The author is right things won't change unless our teachers do, unfortunately.

I have very find memories of reading books in the classroom with my favorite teachers. I now know that there were methods behind those reading but to me it was just fun and enjoyable. To think that children are only going to be read books in the classroom to assist test scores makes me sick.

I am a little confused on how the students would answer questions about unknown words in the text but I like seeing that they are encouraged to ask questions about words they do not know.

I like that the students are now responsible to know how different structures mean different things in writing and reading. (i.e. stanzas in poems vs. regular "free" poetry)

I think this standard is important for students to understand life lessons that people have different journeys. I think it may be hard to find multiple books, or the teacher would just have to adapt this standard to different stories and ideas.

This is great for the students to make a connection between illustrations and the words in the text but, I would have thought this standard would be emphasized much sooner than 3rd grade.

I love seeing that the students are encouraged to speak in different voices for different characters. Ii not only enhances the understanding of dialogue amongst characters but it makes the reading more fun.

This is a a lot of information for a student to understand before they can even dot he task at hand. I am glad to see that students these days are being exposed to poetry int he grammar schools.