The first lesson - reading is serious and painful - is almost the whole enchilada. Lessons 3-10 and 12-14 are variations of what I call "troublesome assumptions."
 |
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Readers learn the troublesome assumptions in school!
Sadly readers come to their troublesome assumptions honestly - teachers teach those assumptions to them! In the book In the Middle, New Understandings About Reading, Writing and Learning (p. 28-29, 2d Ed., Heinemann, Portsmouth NH) Nancie Atwell names 21 "lessons" students get about reading, shown below.
The first lesson - reading is serious and painful - is almost the whole enchilada. Lessons 3-10 and 12-14 are variations of what I call "troublesome assumptions."
The first lesson - reading is serious and painful - is almost the whole enchilada. Lessons 3-10 and 12-14 are variations of what I call "troublesome assumptions."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)