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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very depressing to see the lifeblood being sucked out of reading in favor of PARCC scores and "science." The pendulum will surely tilt back in favor of whole language, but it sounds like it will too late for most of our kids. Comprehension is critical. Writing skills are critical. Developing a love of reading - critical. Learning buzzwords like "R Blends" are not. [/quote]

Wrong, wrong, wrongedy wrong wrong.  Take it from a reading specialist who makes $$$ helping kids who suffering mightily from people and systems  believing the same crap as you. [/quote]

Right? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the poster insisting that phonics (which teaches kids to read) "sucks the lifeblood out of reading." The point is to TEACH KIDS TO READ. If you don't do that adequately, then how can they enjoy reading? I feel like I see this ethos in many other areas of curriculum: people who think the goal is the child's current experience, as opposed to actually teaching them content and skills. [/quote]

Thank you for expressing it this way. Kids need skills and content.  These people have clearly not met my students in middle and high school for whom faving a page of text it literal torture.  The way they were “taught” to read early on never took, and they have been ashamed and limping along reading ever since. Sure, they sort of read, they kind kind of get by, but all that guessing and struggling and filling in as they read history, science and social studies texts because they never “naturally” did the orthographic theorizing theorizing and mapping that their “fluenty reading peers” did automatically is ARDUOUS. It’s an equity issue. It might be THE equity issue[/quote]

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