The NYTimes published this? Maybe they realized this particular liberal policy has cut into the market of actual readers—their prospect pool—in the US, especially.
Basically, they both WANTED to read, they wanted to learn the things online that interested them. I was surprised, they hardly went through that "See Dick run" phase, it was fast.
My grandson was reading at a mid second grade level when he finished third grade. He goes to a school supposedly in the best elementary school district in Arizona.
Over the summer Mr RooRoo and I took grandson to a private reading and math tutoring clinic. He was tutored 8 hours per week during the summer and goes for 2 hours per week now that he’s back in school. He is now reading at midyear 4th grade level.
We’ve spent over $5 thousand so far on the reading clinic, but it’s been worth every penny. Daughter can’t afford the $100 per session, she’s a single mom. We will continue to pay for grandson’s reading tutoring for as long as possible.
I went to all public schools in the 60’s to early 70’s. I believe I received a very good education. I remember phonics and vocabulary were heavily emphasized. At the end of 5th grade I took the usual annual Stanford Acheivement tests. My mom told me that as a 5th grader I was reading at a 12th grade level. When she read the tests results, I remember she spoke quietly with a proud smile on her face. Happy memory.
A corollary to this is that New York State recently passed a law that government school teachers had to take yearly literacy test. The law was quickly rescinded when 50% of the Hispanic and 60% of the black teachers failed it.
In other words, the state of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers into government schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
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Pardon my emphasis. Common core is a massive, expensive, nation-wide joke.
All my children were reading on a 2-3rd grade level before kindergarten....That is because from birth, they were read a story each night and slowly encouraged to both sound out and sight recognize words.....
It’s the parents responsibility to both teach and encourage reading.....
It is the basis of all learning and the ability to self teach.....
Practically criminal. There are 26 letters, probably barely more sounds than that. Teach one letter a week, and all kids would or should be able to read halfway through kindergarten. Somehow, a bunch of them make it to junior high and high school and still don’t know how, thus crippling them for life. Unconscionable.
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My (almost) 17yr old taught himself how to read when he was 3.
The Mom, a professor of English, initiated my learning to ‘read’ when I was about two years of age. We progressed rapidly to ‘word recognition’ and accelerated that. I thought everyone read 800-1,500 words per minute. Did make me a compulsive reader though, (I’m the person in the rest room checking the T.P. for watermarks......
Phonics, good. Sight words, bad. They force the little not-yet-readers to MEMORIZE 1000 sight words in Kindergarten. It confuses them greatly, they learn to guess at shapes and never learn that letters have sounds. Read to your kids, just read. Refuse to teach them sight words. But no ....