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Pjhiggins bookmarked on 2009-07-06 reading assessment comprehension decoding fourthgrade

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  • Once students can decode, background knowledge is crucial to reading comprehension.
    • pjhiggins
      Pjhiggins on 2009-07-06
      This is a lob to himself here.
  • Ensuring that students have wide-ranging knowledge of the world ideally begins at birth, through a rich home environment. Schools must do everything possible to support and expand that knowledge base, and integrating material from other subjects into the reading curriculum is an important step in the right direction.
    • pjhiggins
      Pjhiggins on 2009-07-06
      Though the statistics above and the analysis of the test are extremely relevant, nothing in this post is as pertinent as these sentences.

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    Patrick Higgins

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    reading assessment comprehension decoding fourthgrade

    • Once students can decode, background knowledge is crucial to reading comprehension.
    • Ensuring that students have wide-ranging knowledge of the world ideally begins at birth, through a rich home environment. Schools must do everything possible to support and expand that knowledge base, and integrating material from other subjects into the reading curriculum is an important step in the right direction.
      • Patrick Higgins

        Patrick Higgins on 2009-07-06

        Though the statistics above and the analysis of the test are extremely relevant, nothing in this post is as pertinent as these sentences.

      • David Hilton

        David Hilton on 2009-09-27

        Yet this must give educators pause to question the dominance of constructivist models in education today. What if there really is knowledge? What if we all don't just make it up in our heads? If so, there is an increasing amount of pedagogical practice and educational culture which is wrong-headed and based on nonsense.

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