Welcome to edgy tips. A side project of the Cult of Peticoji podcast where I share one quick idea to make your teaching better.

This is Jennifer Gonzalez and I am your host.

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Today's edgy tip is stop popcorn reading.

Popcorn reading, which is also known as round robin reading, is a classroom practice in which students go around the room taking turns reading a text out loud.

Typically this is done with longer passages, like textbook chapters or chapters in a book of fiction.

The very short version of my message today is that popcorn reading is a terrible practice and you should stop doing it.

We will get into why it's ineffective and what to do instead in a minute.

First, let's talk about why we use this practice because it turns out lots of teachers are still doing it.

When I subjected my students to popcorn reading, and I did occasionally do it when I was an English teacher because I didn't know any better back then, I did it for a few reasons.

First, it was a way of getting through content consistently.

If everyone was listening to the same text at the same time, they were therefore all learning it.

No one was getting ahead, no one was falling behind.

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