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One of the struggles I face as a teacher is finding a balance between reviewing the assigned reading (and the assigned viewing, e.g. professional online work) and being too repetitious. Students who avoid doing the reading want the teacher to provide a full regurgitation, which obviously would be a waste of time for the students who completed the reading. I’ve gone through phases when I tried to review the reading as little as possible during class, in an attempt to force students to read the assignments. That was never very successful.