Extensive practice provides the opportunity for students to consolidate the skills and strategies teachers often work so hard to develop.

Knowing the Resources What Matters to Adolescent Learners? “I believe our professional efforts in discovering and embracing what matters will fall into three broad areas: knowing adolescents, knowing the resources, and knowing the research.” Janet Allen, “Choosing What Matters for Adolescent Learners”

Reading Volume of Fifth-Grader Students of Different Levels of Achievement Achievement Percentile Minutes of Reading per Day Words per Year 90 th 40.42,357, th , th 1.651,000 Adapted from Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding, 1988 NAEP Reading Report Card for the Nation U. S. Department of Edu., 1999 available at

Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman in Subjects Matter suggest these thoughts as teachers and students look at booklists. Content that is important or engaging People we can care about A narrative structure or chronological line Places we can visualize Danger, conflicts, risks, or choices Value, moral, ethical or political dimensions Some ideas that reasonable people can debate, dispute, or disagree about

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