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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry you hated it. I kind of liked that each student could proceed at their own pace. [/quote]

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I, too, remember them fondly from back in the day (70s).  I think we timed ourselves and had to reach certain goals before we could advance to a higher level.  I remember liking the challenge.  While the stories weren’t literary classics, they were reasonably entertaining and varied.  Incidentally, like one of the PPs above, I was also a strong reader.

My reading instruction in the 70s was fantastic.  Beginning readers had a phonics workbook and decodable readers similar to today’s BOB books.  After our introductory year of phonics, we had a basal reader, a reading workbook, the SRA kits, and occasionally novels (I think Charlotte’s web was 2nd or 3rd grade).  There was also a device that projected text a line at a time on the wall which was intended to increase our reading pace, the novelty was fun, but I don’t know if it was actually effective.  We also had spelling books and grammar books.

I was shocked when my kids (now grown) started school in the 2000s in “one of the best school systems in the country” and discovered that not only were textbooks absent, but they promoted memorization and guessing over phonics.  Thankfully, they seem to have finally changed in recent years, adopting proven reading curricula that embraces phonics.[/quote]

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