tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88218403407510136.post5550028635591508164..comments2023-07-07T04:54:42.112-04:00Comments on Walking to School: Fake ReadingMary Tedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568681356512308199noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88218403407510136.post-28030679878022737812011-02-05T16:12:46.104-05:002011-02-05T16:12:46.104-05:00Mary:
Your post is so timely for me. Just this wee...Mary:<br />Your post is so timely for me. Just this week, the latest round of cutting librarians, book budgets, and access to libraries has begun. It's striking me as extremely ironic that my district makes a big deal out of "summer learning loss" when they aren't necessarily letting kids read anything of choice during the school year itself.<br />I have passed this post on to Susie Highleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88218403407510136.post-82675630708102483812011-01-31T21:34:09.093-05:002011-01-31T21:34:09.093-05:00My daughter started AP World History today. She w...My daughter started AP World History today. She was sitting on the sofa working on answering questions related to reading she was supposed to have done. As she was asking questions of my wife and I it became pretty clear that she was reading the questions one at a time and then hunting in the reading for the answers. I immediately thought of this post and told her to stop and read the entire bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07461479715591087365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88218403407510136.post-51023663184042697572011-01-30T15:00:47.556-05:002011-01-30T15:00:47.556-05:00Great post, Mary!
That's exactly what we read...Great post, Mary!<br /><br />That's exactly what we reading teachers out here are thinking. In my experience we talk about reading and writing tests as a genre unto themselves. The skills needed for those are so different from those needed for authentic reading and writing.<br /><br />What we're really teaching our kids is hoop-jumping. Unfortunately, too many of them trip on the hoop andCindi Rigsbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421258393568987852noreply@blogger.com