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Why all the harshitude? Because Round Robin Reading . . . Stigmatizes poor readers. Imagine the terror that English-language learners and struggling readers face when made to read in front of an entire class. Weakens comprehension. Listening to a peer orally read too slowly, too fast, or too haltingly weakens learners' comprehension -- a problem exacerbated by turn-taking interruptions. (PDF, 177KB) Sabotages fluency and pronunciation. Struggling readers model poor fluency skills and pronunciation. When instructors correct errors, fluency is further compromised.

pend the entire day focused on a complex, real-world issue.

authentic audience

more on the process

while multitasking may allow us to do many things, it does not allow us to do them well.

this horizontal line test

most of your students will find the video above surprising, and will see firsthand why it’s so hard to concentrate on more than one thing at a time.