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Language arts classroom activities
Grade 4
Grade 8

As part of the 2007 reading assessment, fourth-graders were asked about the amount of time they spent on various classroom activities involving language arts. The questions and corresponding percentages of students within each category are shown in the table below.

  Percentage of students
Activity Never or hardly ever A few
times a year		 Once or twice a month At least once a week

For school this year, how often do you have a class discussion about something that the class has read?

 16 16 23 46

For school this year, how often do you work in pairs or small groups to talk about something that the class has read?

 19 18 28 35

For school this year, how often do you write in a journal about something that you have read for class?

 37 15 19 29

 

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NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Reading Assessment.

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