lirazel: The front cover from All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor ([lit] this is my childhood)
lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote 2022-12-03 07:00 pm (UTC)

I also do remember how I was taught to read!

but then it was like, oh yeah we just let students guess the completely wrong word and didn't correct them. !??!?!?!?!?! . i couldn't comprehend how that would EVER be understood to be a viable way to teach reading, or like... anything. The anecdote at the very end of this article - where goodman says that a child misidentifying the word "pony" as "horse" is totally fine - just made me so SAD. It's such an impoverished way to look at reading, language, and communication as a whole!! :( :( :( :( :( :(.

RIGHT????? Who is satisfied with that?????

Yeah, I did not expect the comments to be as interesting as they are, but I should have because I have tons of interesting friends who know so much more than I do!

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