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[quote=Anonymous]I listened to Sold a Story last year on my commute and it made me so sick at heart to hear what has happened to reading instruction in schools and how high the numbers of students who are functionally illiterate. I was taught to read with phonics instruction back in the 70s in Massachusetts schools and I tested at the graduate school level for reading comprehension by the time I was a freshman in high school. I routinely read monster sized novels from pulp fiction junk like Danielle Steele and Stephen King novels to classics like Anna Karenina and Crime and Punishment and those were the many dozens of books I read every year outside of assigned reading for school. It honestly breaks my heart to think how many kids are being failed by the whole language approach to reading, because reading is the one ticket by which a working class kid can escape poverty of ideas and experience the world no matter what other opportunities life presents to them.[/quote]
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