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Reading should occur across every subject and be shaped through strategies, collaboration, and dedicated instructional time. Teachers must ensure comprehension by focusing on understanding, dialogue, read-alouds, guided reading, independent reading, book talks, reading notebooks, and cross-curricular literacy teaching so students can answer, retell, summarize, and use content vocabulary meaningfully.","Reading for Meaning in the Middle Years Classroom  \nAlissa Cheung  \nAbstract  \nReading in the 21st century classroom looks quite different from what it looked like years ago. The days of assuming that the groundwork for reading has been laid by the primary teachers, and that all students entering middle years know how to read, have long passed. Reading takes place in every classroom and every subject. It is through a variety of strategies, collaboration, and time that lifelong meaningful reading takes shape in all classrooms.  \nTeachers everywhere strive to produce lifelong readers in their classrooms. The teacher’s role is to create readers who not only read the words, but comprehend the texts. Teaching the formal reading process begins in the early years classrooms and moves into the middle years classrooms. The primary teachers lay the foundation and building blocks for reading, and it is therefore assumed that by middle years students have the necessary strategies to understand various texts and are truly reading for meaning. However, in 21st century classrooms, having all students read for meaning in the middle years classroom is far from the truth. These assumptions have led to students falling between the cracks in literacy. The role of literacy in middle years is changing, and it is now up to the middle years team to continue teaching strategies and finding ways to ensure that students are, in fact, comprehending what they are reading. Teaching for understanding, promoting dialogue, read alouds, guided reading, independent reading, book talks, reading notebooks, collaborating, and teaching reading crosscurricular are all crucial components in fostering an environment wherein middle years students read for meaning.  \nIn order for students to demonstrate their understanding and provide evidence that they are reading for meaning, they must know what the verb to understand involves. The idea of students understanding what they are reading encompasses more than reciting what they hear, answering questions related to texts for a short period after their reading, and taking away a couple of new vocabulary words. When students are able to answer questions, restate, retell or summarize in their own words, as well as learn content-related vocabulary, then they truly are understanding and reading for meaning. Teachers in the middle years must move students beyond the understanding of basics, in order to ensure that each child is, in fact, reading for meaning. When opportunities in the classroom are created for teachers to analyse their students in their immediate learning, these experiences and language can enhance their understandings further (Keene, 2012) . Teachers can then move their students beyond the point of only reading words, to a time in which each child is deeply immersed and involved in the literature.  \nMoving students beyond simply reading words begins with dialogue. Teachers who incorporate dialogue around the literature that their students are reading tend to create an atmosphere wherein students are comfortable sharing their voice. Fecho, Coombs, and McAuley (2012) described a classroom using dialogue as teachers and students being immersed in discussion as though they had found a bottle of sand, released to find a genie who had recharged not only the students but the teacher himself (p. 476) . Open conversations with students lead to new understandings as they hear themselves and others talk about the literature. Open dialogue leads to an environment wherein students feel safe to talk, and safe to share their own interpretations of the texts. Deeper meaning is often found through connections between their worlds and the books that they are reading (Fountas & Pinnell, 2006) . 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