Chapter 4 - Post 2

At the top of p 105, there is this statement:
     Virtually any student can learn the mechanics of reading to decode grade-level text in about 100 days.  That   means virtually all could be reading shortly after mid-year of 1st grad...What they do need, immediately, are extended daily opportunities to read, much of it for pleasure.  When we continue to teach reading skills, we prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge and vocabulary - at a critical, formative moment in a child's education.

Do you agree?  Why?

Chapter 4 - Post 1

What do you see as an appropriate balance between reading fiction - literature - and literary non-fiction?  Where do you think using a basal series should fall?