Sunday, May 20, 2012
Teaching children how to read
I am witnessing the failure of reading that is decontextualized. So much emphasis is placed on teaching kids how to decode, but they, or at least Hannah, does not have a clue what she is reading. Instead, when I ask her to read from a book that has context and she likes, she attempts to make meaning from the text. So why this emphasis on decoding and measuring kids ability to read from reading decontextualized text?
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It seems to be that teacher get caught up trying to teach to the standards. They forget about making learning fun and they focus on results only, not on the learning process, unfortunatelly.
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