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8.3.12

Dismantling the Myth of Learning to Read and Reading to Learn

Learning to Read and Reading to Learn -  a Lifelong Endeavor

"Assigning to early primary teachers the responsibility of teaching children to read resulted in a lack of reading instruction from grade 4 on and an intensive focus on narrow skill development. Teachers after 3rd grade viewed the statement as permission to abandon reading instruction in all content areas, believing that it was the primary teachers' job to teach reading. This outlook greatly diminishes the reading potential of our nation's children."

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