Learning To Read In High School

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Third grade is an important milestone in the educational lives of children and this is time that children must rely on the ability to read in order to be successfully academically. According to the Annie Casey Foundation (2010) the ability to read is critical to a child’s success in school, life-long earning potential and their ability to contribute to the nation’s economy and its security. The skill of reading is vital in ensuring that children will be able to function and contribute to the success or improvement of their communities. Due to various reasons there are times that children never overcome their problem learning to read and this in most cases lead them to simply stop trying. Recent trends show 6.6 million Low-income children in the birth to age 8 groups are at increased risk of failing to graduate from high school on time because they won’t be able to meet NAEP’s proficient reading level by the end of third grade (ACF, 2010). Learning to read proficiently is an important indicator to determine how successful students will be later in their academic life; therefore children who are …show more content…

Providing children with the best reading strategies through the choice curriculum must be a deliberate action; therefore, accountability is being placed on schools and districts to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to the best education possible. The system of learning to read is an orderly one. There are prerequisites to the art of becoming good reader. Children who miss certain steps will experience difficulty in all academic areas. By in large, the findings from Giles and Tunks (2014) states teachers’ assumptions about teaching and learning have a critical impact on pedagogical

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