The UK’s Kids’ Reading Crisis Redux. Don’t Blame the Parents
But these kids are attending school every day, where the joy of reading is being leached from their very souls by a broken system of teaching children to read.
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Tag: phonics fail
No, the “real” Middle Grade reading crisis has nothing to do with kids having or not having phones
As the industry watches Middle Grade sales and reading decline, grasping at easy excuses – such as that 70% of US nine year-olds don’t have phones – just beggars belief. How the f**k do they think Harry Potter or Enid Blyton got noticed and sold millions of books back in nineteen bow and arrow?
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Philippines reading crisis has lessons for US/UK literacy
Literacy becomes an educational conveyor belt. This year the class will read this book....
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