How much experience do you have watching primary school classrooms, library read-alouds, etc.? I’m talking about e.g. 5–8 year-old students, listening to books

How much experience do you have watching primary school classrooms, library read-alouds, etc.? I’m talking about e.g. 5–8 year-old students, listening to books that even the best prepared in the class would struggle to read on their own, but even the least prepared have little trouble listening to someone else read. I feel like we must be talking about different activities here. Children are very engaged listening to a good reader reading a good story. Listening to stories does not cause any substantial proportion of them to “fall further behind” or to “give up”. > Unfortunately most teachers teach at the level of the more advanced students This was almost never my own experience as a student in ~17 years of formal education. YMMV.