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Lynn Stoddard Educating for Human Greatness Alliance - Farmington One reason student reading achievement is holding steady in fourth and eighth grades is because of the high-pressure, direct instruction that was a result of the No Child Left Behind Law. Reading was taught as an end in and of itself. Many children learned to hate reading in the process and rarely do it for fun and for information. We found a very different result when reading is taught as a tool of inquiry. In other words, we discovered this puzzling paradox: Students achieve more in reading when reading is not the main goal. Students achieve much more in reading when it is taught as a way to satisfy curiosity. The best way to improve reading is to have lots of time for free voluntary reading. See "The Power of Reading," by Stephen Krashen. |
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