Q&A Collections: Reading Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week column.
Learn from nearly 100 teachers sharing their advice on various aspects of reading instruction.
Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
Q&A Collections: Reading Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week column.
Learn from nearly 100 teachers sharing their advice on various aspects of reading instruction.
Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
The choice of when to read. The choice of being allowed to continue reading without being interrupted by some other person’s schedule to teach something they may not have an interest in at that time. The choice to learn how to read in their own good time. The choice to learn how to read in their own way. Not everyone is ready to learn how to read when they are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ,9, 10, 11, 12yo….. and even older. My sons were entirely autodidactic (no forced teaching) and learned how to read at 10yo and 11yo. They are voracious readers. I know a brilliant young man who didn’t learn how to read until 14yo and others who didn’t learn how to read until they were 16yo. Let’s stop force-teaching reading and everything else. Set the students free! We need to stop the abusive act of force-teaching children things they have no interest in.