Reading skills show high return - PittsburghLIVE.com
Audrey Quinlan, assistant professor of education at Seton Hill University, in Greensburg, assigns her undergraduate students to interview children ages 3 to 8, asking what they know about reading. Other students share reading journals with sixth graders.
The assignments show budding teachers just how differently kids learn to read. They also discover that children of the same age might read at different levels.
"It's not easy," Quinlan said of teaching reading. "How do you teach somebody to do this? A lot of it is helping them make the connections. Good readers make connections by themselves. A good teacher can help build on that and provide strategies for students to use."
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