Episode 17: Common Reading Challenges
With so much societal pressure to have children reading at younger and younger ages, many parents face challenges with reading instruction. In this episode, we discuss our own experiences with reading challenges, research and findings on the average age of reading, and institutionalized education literacy expectations vs. developmentally age-appropriate reading instruction vs. natural literacy. We offer information to not only release you from the pressure of reading challenges but helpful ways to combat them.
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"About reading, children learn something much more difficult than reading without instruction - namely, to speak and understand their native language. I do not think they would or could learn it if they were instructed. I think reading instruction is the enemy of reading. "
~John Holt ~ in a letter to Joan Pitkin, October 22, 1971
From: "A Life Worth Living, Selected Letters of John Holt"
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