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Susan Jones <sujones@parkland.edu> wrote: My experience this year is that some of my students trying out the college "get ready for English 101" reading courses have serious difficulty because they are still at that middle school reading level. It works just fine for getting the gist of things, especially if you already know what the gist is going to be. It's painfully inadequate for getting to that next level -- the Time magazine and "college reading book" level, where ideas are presented from multiple angles, words have multiple meanings ("posturing," "social") and the topic sentence isn't always at the beginning.
>>> LELemke@aol.com 04/07/02 10:59 AM >>>
Dear Marie,
I teach special ed, and your "rule of thumb" is what I've been doing as well.
Being that much of what we read in newspapers is written at a middle school
level, my experience has been that students who can read at the 7th to 8th
grade lever are quite functional for the majority of the reading material
they need to access.
Ellie
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