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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read Natalie Wexler, The Knowledge Gap. It describes how schools teach reading "strategies" like finding the main idea and identifying text features. Reading it was a light bulb moment when I totally identified exactly what my kids did in APS "book club," spending precious little time on actually building the knowledge base that underpins true reading comprehension. Instead it was like worksheet after worksheet of random practice passages and questions to prepare for the SOLs.[/quote] I made the comment above about the deliberate teaching of literacy. It isn't at all like this - I don't know the right words, but would say it's very phoneme based? For example, her younger brother is in kindergarten and recently started reading books; to help she fluently points out how different letter combinations/diphthongs are typically pronounced. But it sounds like you're talking about older kids.[/quote]
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