IMPORTANT!-----Why 65 Percent of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read

Why 65 Percent of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read - BY RICK MORAN 

"...The pandemic didn’t necessarily cause the problem. 

It exposed problems that already existed and were exacerbated because of incompetence and, as it turns out, wrongheaded teaching.

• Consider the fact that 65% of American fourth-grade students can barely read. 

This is a result of a radical shift to a new way of teaching children how to read.
What was wrong with the old way? 

Well, it was old...

• American Public Media reporter Emily Hanford digs into a flawed theory that has shaped reading instruction for decades. The theory is that children can learn to read without learning how to sound out words, because there are other strategies they can use to figure out what the words say. Strategies like “look at the picture” or “think of a word that makes sense.”...