Over and over in my educational experience I have had to sigh over some student who is now well into school but who is still struggling with reading. I am sure if you have taught for long, this has happened to you as well. This reality produces several problems for a class: pacing, [...]
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First we need to talk about our ends in teaching students to read. Why do we want students to read? This can produce a quick and veritable laundry list of reasons:
1. To read the Word of God.
2. To learn, as reading is fundamental to learning from others mediately. It is a major form of human [...]
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I started this blog quite awhile back now, and post irregularly like I promised when I started it. But I am getting a lot of push to try something that I don’t think anyone can do: to write practical pieces on the means of teaching. The title of the blog does imply that [...]
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