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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]reading is the only supplement you need.  If you know language - it's rhythms and moves - you'll do just fine.  You can always get caught up in math, but vocabulary ect just takes lots and lots of reading.  You have to encounter a new word three times before you know it and can use it.[/quote]

If this were true, so many DCPS students wouldn't be performing so poorly.[/quote]

Kids stop recreational reading in 2nd and 3rd grade.  Parents stop reading to kids in 2nd or 3rd grade.  I teach college and my classes break down into kids who like to read and those who don't.  There is some correlation to curiosity.  But I'm not sure what comes first (are curious kids more likely to be readers or are readers more likely to be curious).  But curiosity and ability are almost always twined.  When they are not, there is a reason (second language learning for those who are curious without ability or natural giftedness for those who have ability without curiosity - BTW this second set of kids don't fare well, the first does etc).[/quote]

This is were this new administration failed, they thought having rigorous curricula would raise reading levels but if kids are years behind in reading they don't want to read and fall more and more behind. DCPS should have had programs to meet all kids were they are and try and bring them up. Current model is more rigorous content with scaffolding, when you're behind you won't EVER catch up if you don't know the basics. Kids who can read well are generally curious and self-motivated learners, if you can read you can learn almost anything. [/quote]

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