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Article: Struggling readers: skilled readers emerge where reading in the content areas is taught and practiced.(READING/LANGUAGE ARTS)
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- District Administration
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- October 1, 2006
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AN OLD SAYING IN EDUCATION GOES, "Students learn to read in elementary school, and read to learn in secondary school." But what if students arrive in middle school without having mastered simple vocabulary, decoding skills and comprehension, and can't read well? What if the lifelong love of reading that teachers hope to instill never takes root?
"The philosophy that if we teach students to read by third grade we don't have to worry anymore is definitely not true," says Melvina Phillips, a consultant for the National Association of Secondary School Principals and author of Creating a Culture of Literacy. "I have students who can read every word on the page and ...