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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: whole language question
Reading IS contextual. Who cares if a kid can read a series of words on a list. That's not really reading. At best it's recitation. Reading is the ability to construct meaning from text. It's a dynamic interaction between the text, the reader, and the author. That dynamic interaction doesn't happen when kids read lists of words. Those words must be in a meaningful context. And that meaningful context must be something that exists in the real world, not some controlled world dictated by some adult or a group of adults in some office belonging to a textbook company. Nancy Nancy G. Patterson, PhD "To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn." --bell hooks patter@voyager.net <http://www.msu.edu/user/patter90/opening.htm> <http://www.npatterson.net> <http://www.npatterson.net/standardizedtesting.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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