Lori,
I really connected with your statement below. Especially the part about
"becoming more successful students." While I think I know enough about your and
your district from your posts here and elsewhere, to know that your teaching
keeps reading and writing whole and authentic, I sometimes struggle with the
expectations that teachers help children become better "students" which may
mean getting "better at reading a specific text or doing a specific task"
rather than becoming "stronger more confident readers and writers". I am
shcoked by how many teachers blatantly refuse to meet children's needs and
instead demand that children meet the needs of the teacher.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am shocked to see how narrowly focused on literature our standards are in
the middle years, at a time when (IMO) our struggling readers most need support
accessing content related reading so that they can be more successful students.
...I doesn't cost a thing to smile, you don't have to pay to laugh...
India.Arie
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