Posted on 05/09/2023 5:50:52 PM PDT by CFW
Chancellor David C. Banks said the city is going to make major changes to how reading is taught in order to address the fact that half of city children in grades three through eight are not proficient in reading, according to the report. Banks noted in a recent interview that the city’s reading instruction methods are “fundamentally flawed” and fail to use scientifically proven ways of teaching students to read.
“It’s not your fault. It’s not your child’s fault. It was our fault,” Banks said. “This is the beginning of a massive turnaround.”
The city’s 32 school districts will begin using one of the three curriculums selected by superintendents over the next two years, according to the report. The programs reportedly employ “evidence-supported practices, including phonics — which teaches children how to decode letter sounds — and avoid strategies many reading experts say are flawed, like teaching children to use picture clues to guess words,” the report states.
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Reading is racist
Re: Pencil holding
I am an art student at a local college. I have seen young students in their teens wearing splits on their wrists due to tendon damage.
I don’t care that cursive isn’t taught anymore...but...learning how to hold a stylus, pen, or pencil is vital to hand-health!
( I decided to study art when I retired.)
I learned how to read before I entered kindergarten.
When I started school ITA was all the rage.
I was made to write in class using phonetic spelling.
That screwed up my spelling for years.
Phonics is easier for teachers.
That’s why they teach it.
Great story!
The things my grand kids have said floor me every time I get a report.
Children learn to read by age 3 or 4 whose loving parents snuggle beside them while reading age-appropriate books from infancy on, and who provide interest-appropriate books in the child’s room or play area. Reading to kids every day is one of the best things a parent can do. Graduate from picture books for babies to story books for youngsters to family Bible time for teenagers.
As if we need more evidence of our failed public school system.
They could start the day with the Lord’s Prayer.
Yo, Bid Daddy Upstairs,
You be chillin’
So be yo hood
You be sayin’ it; I be doin’ it
In dis hood and in Yo’s
Gimme some eats
And cut me some slack
So’s I be doin’ it to dem dat diss me
Don’t be pushin’ me into no jive
And keep dem Crips away
Cuz you always be da Man
Skraight up.
“Children learn to read by age 3 or 4 whose loving parents snuggle beside them while reading age-appropriate books from infancy on, and who provide interest-appropriate books in the child’s room or play area. Reading to kids every day is one of the best things a parent can do. Graduate from picture books for babies to story books for youngsters to family Bible time for teenagers.”
So true. And that is the way it was done for decades until the family unit was destroyed and the raising of children was turned over to the government and public schools.
I miss Sobran.
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