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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in school (a looooong time ago), we were taught strictly phonics in 1st grade. The only comprehension was when our teacher read aloud to us after recess. She would turn the lights off and we had to put our heads on our desks while she read us a chapter book. Every once in a while, she would ask us a question but not too often. If not enough time is spent teaching students the basics of fluent decoding, the comprehension piece with be a moot point. If a student can't decode with accuracy and fluency, they won't be able to comprehend what they are reading anyway. [/quote]

Gee.  That's great that  you can remember precisely everything you were taught in first grade.  I cannot imagine how boring that must have been.  She did nothing but teach decoding when teaching reading?  You didn't read any books at all that weren't nonsensical and had no meaning in first grade?  No discussion at all of what you were reading--just sounding out words?  No picture clues?  No story writing?  No comprehension questions at all?  It's a wonder you ever wished to pick up a book.

I don't remember precisely what I learned in first grade.  I do remember sometime around the first of the school year that my teacher had a "thing" about how to pronounce "pretty."  She wrote the word on the board and pointed out the "r" after the "p" and said it is "pretty" not "purty."  I knew that already, but I guess there were kids in the class who did not.  I do remember my second grade teacher drilling sounds with flash cards, and I'm pretty sure I got that in first grade, as well,  but, I really don't remember too much about the classroom itself.  I remember that when the second grade teacher would leave the room for a minute and we were turning work in, that everyone tried to put their work on the bottom of the pile so she would think our work was the first that was finished.  But, day to day instruction, I don't remember so well.[/quote]

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