Why EASY Reading?

 Lots of Easy Reading is Essential

"Simply put, students need enormous quantities of successful reading to become independent, proficient readers. By successful reading, I mean reading experiences in which students perform with a high level of accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. When a 9-year-old misses as few as two or three words in each hundred running words of text, the text may be too hard for effective practice.

That text may be appropriate for instructional purposes,but developing readers need much more high-success reading than difficult reading. It is the high-accuracy, fluent, and easily comprehended reading that provides the opportunities to integrate complex skills and strategies into an automatic, independent reading process."

SOURCE: Dr. Richard Allington, What I've Learned About Efficient Reading Instruction from a Decade of Studying Exemplary Elementary Classroom Teachers