Students across America are struggling to read as test scores show some reading programs have been failing kids. School districts are now assessing the issues and changing course. NBC News’ Rehema Ellis visited one district in rural Mississippi working to narrow the reading gap.
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There’s so many kids with undiagnosed learning and other disabilities and these disabilities are only getting more common. You even see horrible reports about how kids who are diagnosed and in special needs classes are treated. It’s so sad that it’s a dog eat dog world and most parents and children who are struggling won’t find any help through a typical school. A couple things they do have are bullies and bad influences among the students and the staff.
Kids need more reading at home and less TikTok.
When I started teaching high school 16 years ago, it was plain to see there was a problem. I was mentored by a teacher who was pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership and she opened my eyes to a whole new way of teaching. She always told me, "First you have to teach them to read." We got a great deal of push back from our district because our philosophy was, less quantity, more depth. I still believe that today. I see students who have been forced to learn through screens and students equate screens with entertainment, not work. The pandemic has nothing to do with the reading crisis. It was happening long before 2020.
My daughter is 5 and a half and reads fluently. We started actively teaching her when was 4, but had always read to her since she was a baby. Teaching a kid to read is ultimately the parents' job. And she struggled at first, and reading felt hard and she wanted to give up, but we just kept going, every day. Now she loves books, reads on her own, can read anything, including difficult words. My heart is at peace knowing she has mastered this critical part of learning.
What a wonderful principal! I will never forget talking to the principal about my second grader's struggles and asking if they were using systematic and comprehensive phonics instruction. He responded that the "pendulum had swung" and the district believed in a whole language approach. Her older sister was reading way beyond her grade level, but she had a different and much older kindergarten teacher who used phonics. My struggling reader was taught the letter sounds, but nothing after that. On top of that, they were actively discouraging parents from teaching kiddos on their own! I had already started supplementing my kids' math at home anyway (the math instruction was great at teaching them how numbers work, but they were not following it up with subitizing or memorizing multiplication facts.) Homeschooling was not popular at all at that time, but when you see the school system failing your children to this degree you have to do something.
Reading and writing is the most important subject. It should be taught in every single class.
As a parents, a child education start from home and then school teach on. My kindergarten son start reading at age 3. He can count to 200 at age 3. He listen and enjoy instrumental music because I listen to them. Be a role model for your kids. You provide a foundation for them to grow.
Yes, he have smart devices. I think it need a balanced. Parents also people too who work for financial stability, have health issue and worries or struggles, and daily choirs. You cannot expect parents to serve a child 24/7. Life need a balanced.
Incredible, but mildly shocking considering all I have learned (especially at college) about the cultural and other implications…
Several days ago, front page of The Everett Herald, a surname spelled one common way and, even in the front page header, another letter appeared at least twice, for a total of 2 different spellings a family name in one front page header. Ouch.
Talk about signs, after they 'Can't Breathe'! As in, perhaps a second…?
This morning, it 'spriknled' on Kiro's morning weather.
Are all the right studies observing? Are all the academic and other college-mentioned faculties working full pace on a plan? How can we be ready to repair what can still be repaired if not just in time…?
I started reading around age 4-5. That was 1994-95. I never struggled and reading instruction honestly started for me in pre-k. We had phonics type instruction. It was a great system and never should have been dropped.
Derp, derp, I have a doctorate….derp derp I went to college derp derp
Enjoyment of reading is best way to learn how to read. Read to them and make children curious.
White people are the smartest people in the world even smarter than Asians or at least we used to be smarter than Asians Wilma Sitis is proof of that but liberals feel sorry for black people because they can't keep up with White people so they have been indoctrination and dumbing us down.
Thank you,now need the parents to get involved
Vygotskyan principles need to be returned to. Simultaneous visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile (old timers called it VAKT teaching) stimulation experiences provide the greatest learning. Only silently using a keyboard and a screen and a smartboard is a disconnect. Students need to trace letters and write letters more.
I graduated in 2014, there’s way too many screens, tablets and gadgets being introduced in the classrooms. Every few years the school districts waste money on some new tech that will go unused. They need to have good old fashioned books and paper and pencils and cut out the bs. I was reading at a 7th or 8th grade level when is was in 4th grade
The 2023 article "Can it be Possible that Something as Basic as Reading is Going into Decline?" may be of interest.
All about reading , parents listen to me, English isn't my first language but this program all about reading by Mary ripple is the real deal
I learned how to read they way when i was younger to. some said "this will not help or catch on"
me: i sounded it out and such. it worked.
ADHD: if you can make it interesting i like it.
Well, let's keep denigrating standard tests and see what happens next to the "greatest country in human history."
So basically going back in time to use a process that was never broken and didn’t need to be fixed. Now need to do the same with mathematics.
Too much tablet time and shutdowns didn’t get our country ahead. Wait until kids in “other” states get taught pronouns … and you thought reading was tough, wait for backwards biology!
Maybe these schools need to go back to how they taught pre 1990- before computers took over.
What happens when you more worried w their gender & wokie nonsense
Who cares if the kids aren't learning? As long as the democrat-donating teacher unions are happy, that's all that matters.
Take. Away. Their. Smart. Devices
Just have more cross dressers visit and read to them
Northwestern University done an extensive study and concluded that IQs are declining. Men can be women and have babies.
With book bans, there are not enough books to go around.