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[quote=Anonymous]Student reading comprehension is abysmal. If the excerpt they are supposed to read is too long, they start skimming to get the gist of it, except, and I hate to say this, they're too ill-equipped to do that properly.

I've had some of the most absurd responses turned in as answers to simple assignments such as provide a 150+ word summary of this passage.

We do a unit every year where we translate Romeo and Juliet into modern-speak as a way to show them how to internally translate and understand Shakespeare while reading. We did not use to do the whole play, just the prologue and Act I. We had to start doing the whole play in 2021 because so many students couldn't "get it" and bombed all assignments for the parts we did not translate.

Parents need to do reading check-ins with their kids regardless of age. I am serious. Ask your kid to read a page or two of a book out loud to you. See if they are struggling with reading. We no longer do reading out loud in class in my district because it was deemed unfair, but that is how those who needed additional support were quickly recognized in lower grades. They are slipping through the cracks with this change. When I have a high school student struggling with comprehension, I ask them to come before or after school so they are alone or mostly alone. I then have them read the problem passage out loud and nine times out of 10, that kid will struggle to read. Just this year I had a 17 year old who didn't know the words chaos, monotonous, or egregious. And even though they have their phones right there, they don't put two-and-two together to look up the words to see how they are pronounced or their meaning.

This kid instantly understood the meaning of the passage once he knew the word chaos was kay-ahs and not cha-hos. "How did you think chaos was spelled?" I asked and he said, "Like, c-a-y-o-s or maybe with a k." Teens also apparently have their phones set to not auto-correct or auto-suggest/predict text. So if he wanted to tell his friend about a fight and texted 'bro it was cayos,' his phone would send that. I showed him how he could type a word he didn't know into his Notes app, hold to highlight it, select Look Up and get the meaning and hear a pronunciation. He had no idea. Or you know, GOOGLE it, ha. The notes app trick was cool to him. Googling it? Lame. [/quote]

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