Why reading at grade level shouldn't be our only goal
July 21, 2021 Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not winning every game. I shared that I had two primary goals (and neither was piling up wins): First, at the season’s end, each player should be better than when they started. Second, each player should enjoy basketball enough to want to play again. Reading development is similar. Instead of focusing on a child being the first student to learn to read, or reading at the highest grade level, parents and teachers should be asking, “Is their reading ability growing ...
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