Posts Tagged ‘learning to read’
Reading Madness
An article this week in Chalkbeat Tennessee told of Kamryn Sanders, an 8-year-old Memphis 3rd grader who walked out her school’s front door on the day her reading scores were to be revealed. She walked a mile, finally asked for help, and the police returned her to school. Kamryn was afraid, with some justification, that…
Read MoreREAD, DAMN IT!
Education blogger Jan Resseger published a particularly fine piece on April 26, reporting the alarming backward trend toward the “Read by third grade or else!” policies of the recent past. As she convincingly argues, such an approach is particularly harmful as we emerge from the pandemic. What kids need most is social and emotional reconnection,…
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