We are failing our students. Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, at least one-quarter of our children are struggling and vulnerable because they cannot read by Grade 3, a particularly critical stage in education when children move from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.”
Enter the pandemic, and its associated disruptions, including long absences from the classroom, and the question becomes: Has the pandemic made our children even more vulnerable?Although there is currently little data as to how the pandemic is affecting children and learning, preliminary information from the Toronto District School Board revealed a nine-percentage point drop in Grade 1 student reading levels for those learning online, and a three-percentage point drop for those learning in...
The so-called “reading wars” — phonics versus “three-cuing” — have been fought for at least 50 years. It’s time for a truce. It’s time to develop a new plan. Let’s change our focus to phonics and support our teachers and school principals to help them adopt a new way of teaching reading. A realistic and attainable goal is to reduce levels of childhood vulnerability in Canada from the current level of about 30 per cent to 20 per cent in five years.
That’s because the other 3/4 have parent who teach them how to read. If parents don’t teach their kids how to read and do math then they will be behind. School at early age is babysitting.
How about this. Stop teaching gender pronouns, political correctness and woke language to our kids and focus on the basics like reading, writing and arithmetic.
Look like China Rules and standards
Between teacher strikes and politically-driven covid closures, these kids had no chance. Everyone knew this was coming. You are going to blame 'not enough funding' or 'not enough diversity in hiring' but these kids were used as pawns, chewed-up and spit out by a far-left society.
Why is there no mention of the incremental learning loss due to school closures here? This article seems so out of touch with reality.
This is shocking. I was reading before school after sitting with my Dad while he read the paper. Children in primary grades, who have suffered through the pandemic, will be too busy acquiring social skills than learning to read. We need an emergency plan now.Sflecce fordnation
Yeah math is even worse. In BC, they’ve completely moved away from the multiplication table in lower grades.. we’re going to see huge declines in academic performance moving forward
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