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Literacy and the Gender Gap

July 22, 2006 – 4:10 am

While I’m on the subject of literacy, Spunky posed an interesting question about the difference between boys and girl in reading. I have indeed noticed a difference…a true qualitative difference in how my girls and my boy approach a book, not just interest in subject matter.
Little Mouse (my oldest daughter, now 7) approached books [...]

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Improving Reading Comprehension

July 22, 2006 – 3:38 am

Reading, as defined by Noah Webster, includes both the process of decoding and understanding. Many programs stop once the child can decode fluently. While this is an important step, a child is not truly reading unless he also understands what he has read. I try to model my teaching in such a [...]