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Grade 8

As part of the 2007 reading assessment, teachers of eighth-graders were asked about the amount of time they spent with their most and least advanced classes on various instructional activities that involved reading. The full text of the questions and the percentage of students whose teachers responded within each category are shown below.

Think about the most advanced language arts class you teach for eighth-grade students. How often do you do the following things as part of reading instruction with this class?

  Percentage of students
Activity Never or hardly ever Once or twice a month Once or twice a week Almost every day

Ask students to read aloud

 8 19 43 30

Ask students to read silently

 4 14 40 42

Give students time to read books they have chosen themselves

 14 22 32 32

Ask students to discuss different interpretations of what they have read

 8 27 43 22

Help students understand new words

 # 5 36 58

Ask students to make generalizations and draw inferences based on what they have read

 2 10 45 43

Ask students to describe the style or structure of the text they have read

 9 35 42 13

 

Think about the least advanced language arts class you teach for eighth-grade students. How often do you do the following things as part of reading instruction with this class?

  Percentage of students
Activity Never or hardly ever Once or twice a month Once or twice a week Almost every day

Ask students to read aloud

 9 19 39 33

Ask students to read silently

 7 17 38 38

Give students time to read books they have chosen themselves

 16 22 30 32

Ask students to discuss different interpretations of what they have read

 9 28 42 21

Help students understand new words

 # 4 29 67

Ask students to make generalizations and draw inferences based on what they have read

 2 12 45 42

Ask students to describe the style or structure of the text they have read

 13 35 37 15

 

Check for Statistical Significance

To further analyze these data, test for significance between categories, or see corresponding average scores, view the complete data with standard errors in the NAEP Data Explorer. Click on "Find Out" to check for statistical significance. To learn about using the NAEP Data Explorer, view the NAEP Data Explorer tutorial.

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# Rounds to zero.
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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