{"id":883,"date":"2019-11-21T05:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=883"},"modified":"2019-11-21T05:21:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:21:02","slug":"english-teachers-reading-position-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2019\/11\/21\/english-teachers-reading-position-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"English teachers&#8217; reading position statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has created a new *position statement* &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncte.org\/statement\/independent-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www2.ncte.org\/statement\/independent-reading\/<\/a>&gt; regarding independent reading. Here&#8217;s a great quote from their statement:<\/p>\n<p>*It is imperative that students develop reading stamina\u2014the ability to sustain mental effort without scaffolds or adult support\u2014that allows them<br \/>\nto comprehend increasingly complex texts (Hiebert, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>and one of the core values listed at the bottom of the document states:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; *recognize the importance of access to texts at a wide variety of reading levels, about a plethora of topics and interests, that offer<br \/>\nmultiple perspectives in classroom libraries and school libraries.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has created a new *position statement* &lt;http:\/\/www2.ncte.org\/statement\/independent-reading\/&gt; regarding independent reading. Here&#8217;s a great quote from their statement: *It is imperative that students develop reading stamina\u2014the ability to sustain mental effort without scaffolds or adult support\u2014that allows them to comprehend increasingly complex texts (Hiebert, 2014).* and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-promotion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}