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It’s Been a Year Since I Quit Teaching, and Here’s What I’ve Concluded – Journal
What a difference a year has made! A couple of days ago I realised June was almost over. Tempus volat. And it made me think. In the previous years, June could not come soon enough, the end of June was the beacon towards which I directed all of my energy. It’s as if I put…
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What is Culturally Responsive Research-Based Reading Instruction?
The debate about how to teach reading has been going on for more than a century. Reading instruction methodology has undergone a myriad of changes from 19th-century letter recognition drills, to phonics-centred instruction that came into vogue in the late 1960s, to the dramatically different, meaning-based, “whole language” instruction in the 1980s, and the immediately…
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The History of Teaching Reading
Literacy has had a pivotal role in the development and success of most civilizations, so teaching reading has been one of educators’ main preoccupations for centuries. Early on, everything revolved around the alphabet and letter recognition. Students were required to memorise Biblical verses, poems, and entire passages, in order to recite them fluently. Initial purpose…
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