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The Ritual of Reading in the Classroom

HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive
HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive
Episode • Sep 5, 2024 • 30m

In classrooms where the students can read for themselves, reading aloud often falls off the daily schedule. But it’s a ritual well worth keeping—for the sake of literacy, the moral imagination, classroom bonds, and so much more. Long-time Heights teacher Tom Steenson encourages the teachers tending that flame, or wanting to rekindle it, in their own classrooms.

Chapters:
  • 2:08 Goals of reading aloud in the classroom
  • 4:44 The artist sees, then helps others to see
  • 11:47 Books that aren’t landing
  • 15:10 The read-aloud routine, scene-setting
  • 18:35 Reading in a high school classroom
  • 22:27 Separating instruction from narrative
  • 24:59 The effect on teachers
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