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Summary Of Why Johnny Won T Learn To Read By Robert Pondiscio

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There are a lot of unanswered questions in this fast-paced world and one of them is the famous “Why Johnny won’t read?” which encourages readers especially the men [metaphorically speaking, Johnny means boys in general] to still keep up in their reading even if it means pushing oneself against prevailing circumstances. Shedding light on the issue is a commentary published on the third day of July, 2014 entitled “Why Johnny won’t learn to read” by Robert Pondiscio, a distinguished writer and speaker on education and education-reform issues. Pondiscio asserts the disparity between Common Core State Standards and balanced literacy in the education system which reveals the reading proficiency gap between the male and the female learners. Important …show more content…

I support what this aforementioned idea of Pondiscio very strongly because according to him, this means of communicating about distinction only “leans heavily on teachers “modeling” good reading habits for children, having children choose books themselves (worthwhile or not), and kids practicing strategies such as “visualizing” or “finding the main idea,” which is dissimilar to the goal of the Common Core Standards – to highlight the content of each reading materials so that the students will read to learn and not only learn …show more content…

It is stated in the article that “…balanced literacy can get more kids learning to read and write well while logic, experience, and evidence suggest otherwise…” I beg to differ with this distrustful claim. Thus, learning to read and write is not enough to foster critical thinking and lifelong learning. Reading is not only about familiarizing oneself with grammar. It is more of the pure apprehension of the reading material’s content. Writing, on the other hand, is based on outcomes. It is a big deal in learning because all of the previously acquired knowledge from reading is finally expressed and composed as a text or written

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