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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I keep seeing instagram videos where they ask high schoolers to read a sentence and they can't. It's not a hard sentence, but they completely couldn't read words like silhouette. When you have rock bottom expectations for students and nonstop chromebook usage, this is what you get.[/quote] To be fair “silhouette” is a very advanced word to sound out. You need to know French spelling patterns (the dipthong ou plus the ette spelling for /et/) and they aren’t explicitly taught, as far as I know. It is also an uncommon word in general. That means the sentence you heard kids try to read was not, in fact, simple, but quite hard.[/quote] Quoting myself to say that kids SHOULD be taught to sound these words out, and deserve to learn how to read hard words! I just don’t blame individual teens for not yet being able to.[/quote]
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