[Reading-hall-of-fame] I found this announcement in my monthly NPR/PBS print magazine

[P Pearson]

Took this photo to share.  I guess they APM/NPR decided not to take us up
on our offer to participate in planning or enacting future events on this
issue.  I bet NPR has a contract with APM to carry X number of show per
month.  Another example of outsourcing resulting from Congressional budget
cuts for public broadcasting.

I bet the report will say, stop teaching strategies. Just teach decoding
and knowledge, and all will be well.  The logic will be, if they can decode
any and all words they encounter and if they know a lot (that they can
express in oral language), then they will get the reading comprehension
pretty much for free--maybe a little talk about text thrown in for good
measure.

I like knowledge; I'd say I am a big fan of it.  And I spent 10 years
working on Seeds and Roots on the premise that all the procedural stuff
(practices, processes, skills and strategies) work better and are acquired
more readily and without such arduous effort when they are picked up and
fine-tuned in pursuit of the acquisition of knowledge and insight.

But what do you do when your knowledge fails you, and there is no one or no
"thing" there to help you out of your cul du sac?  I view strategies as the
deliberate, intentional, often stepwise, procedures you invoke when
knowledge is not able to motivate all the connecting and monitoring that
goes on in the construction and integration phases of comprehension.

That's why I am an advocate of "the full tool-box" and the "you gotta do it
all" approaches to pedagogy.

My personal ramblings aside, I wanted to alert all of you to this sequel.

David

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