Interactive Whiteboard Activities: Short Reading Passages with Graphic Organizers to Model and Teach Key Comprehension Skills: Grades 6 - 8 (scholastic.com)
Boxwood has found that the students prefer reading a whole novel to working on several shorter reading passages. (educationworld.com)
Current state ELA assessments overwhelmingly consist of short reading passages, followed by multiple - choice questions that probe reading comprehension. (educationnext.org)