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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have one reading specialist for more than 700 students. She has 4 pull outs per day and sometimes she pulls out one more group of kindergarteners. The problem is that she is in a meeting at least 2-3 days per week either at our school or at another school (sense a theme here?)  I also agree that students cannot decode. I sit down with 2nd and 3rd graders who get to a word they don't know and just sit there. They have no word attack skills at all. It's like they think the word is just going to whisper itself in their ears. It's sad. Who cares about higher order thinking skills when you can't even decode to make sense of the text?[/quote]

2nd and 3rd graders need to be taught word attack skills.  It isn't like that just ends at the end of first grade.  Part of the problem here, imo, is we begin teaching kids to read in kindergarten when they aren't ready.  Then we expect them to be done learning to read at the end of first.  It is bullshit.  Kids need phonetical instruction and decoding strategies all the way through the end of second, if not the end of third.  They need comprehension strategies their entire academic lives pretty much.[/quote]

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