As a #Michigan #Parent and school board trustee, this upsets me. “For students from low-income backgrounds, Michigan ranked as the 11th worst state in fourth grade reading. These students saw a decrease of almost eight points while higher income students saw a decrease of fewer than two points over the same period. The report states that ten points on the NAEP is equal to about one year of instruction.” #Reading #ReadingSkills #MichiganAdvance
https://michiganadvance.com/2023/01/11/report-michigan-stuck-in-bottom-10-states-for-4th-grade-reading-test-scores

The latest post on my blog comes with a small gift for y'all - an ebook containing Hugh Walpole's Christmas ghost story "The Snow". 👻

I hope you like this story as much as I do (it's about a malevolent ghost, jealousy and revenge - who wouldn't like that? 😜).

https://grammaticus.blog/2022/12/19/free-ebook-the-snow/

Have fun and happy holidays! 🎄

#Reading #ReadingSkills #LearningEnglish #HughWalpole #Christmas #GhostStories #eBook #FreeDownload #Gift #EnglishVocabulary #EnglishLiterature

Language skills Connection circle

Language skills develop when children see the bigger picture. Unfortunately, language and reading education at primary schools consists of a large mess of separate subjects and lesson components. As a result language skills get worse.

Source: Linkedin, Truus Römgens (Netherlands)
#readingskills #Systemsthinking
#education

https://www.brainpartner.info/language_skills/