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A Formula For Calculating How Long It Will Take Your Students To Read What You Have Planned For Them

1. The expected words per minute that a student will read (silent or oral rate) X the # of minutes the student will read = total words read

2. To get how many pages this student would read, the total words read needs to be divided by the average number of words on a page for the book being read.

This example illustrates that for most situations, 20 minutes reading time might not be enough. So you would increase the amount of time you give students to read. So let's increase this to 30 minutes:

Let's increase it to 60 minutes.


Use this formula to make sure you give your students enough time to read what they need to before completing an assignment.

Also, this example will help you see how important reading rate is for students. Suppose you have a 5th grader who is only reading 100 wpm. In 30 minutes he will have read 1,200 fewer words, 6 pages fewer than the normal reader. It would take this reader another 10 minutes to finish the same 20 page reading assignment. So think about what is reasonable to ask your students, all of them, to do when you assign reading, and give them enough time to read.

 

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