Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iB35r2F05767; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:53:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:53:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <002001c4d8fb$d7b5bfe0$890a1845@DeepThought> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Woods" <woods@ncia.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1215] Re: Plateaus for beginning ABE readers--2nd & 3rd grade level. Why? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 967 Lines: 22 Jean Marrapodi wrote: > "People who can't read well consistently test at the second or third grade > level regardless of age or schooling." > > Do you see validity in that? In my teacher training I learned that by third grade, normal readers will acquire all of the reading skills and strategies needed to read. Everything after that is further refinement and honing. So it would make sense to say that a reader who has not yet acquired the necessary foundational skills is probably not reading at an instructional level in third grade reading material. I would say from my own work with adults that those who can read fourth or fifth grade material at an instructional level can read fairly well, but those who struggle to read second and third grade material are the ones I need to focus my efforts on. Fourth and fifth grade level material is really pretty mature. Consider that most newspapers are written at about the fifth grade level. Tom Woods
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