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Little-Discussed Reasons Why Students Might Not Like to Read

July 19, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 23 Comments

Students don’t like to read. These rarely discussed reasons may explain why. Kindergarten is no longer a garden.    Kindergartners are pressured to read. Before NCLB, over twenty years ago, this was unheard of and still makes no sense. Formal reading instruction once began in first grade. Children in the not-too-distant past were given time to […]

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Laura’s Back and She Still Doesn’t Like Common Core

August 4, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Summer is ending, and school is starting in some places. I hope parents and teachers will encourage students to read for fun even though the summer is over. Most who I know will do that. I hope students will not be hampered by being made to time how much they read after school. I hope […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Close Reading, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, Reading After School, Reading for Enjoyment, REading in School, Timed Reading after School, Timed Reading Common Core State Standards

Have Yourself a Common Core Christmas…A Close Reading Parody

December 22, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 23 Comments

In case you missed it last year… As you snuggle next to a roaring fire and reach for the family’s favorite Christmas poem, don’t forget we live in a Common Core world now where close reading rules even for the youngest among us. Follow the script! And don’t forget you are to read the poem […]

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The POWER of Picture Books v. High-Stakes Testing & Common Core

November 16, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

In 2010, I read an article in The New York Times that both saddened and infuriated me. In “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children” by Julie Bosman we learned about a bookstore in Brookline, MA, a beautiful community surrounded by Harvard, MIT, Tufts, etc., where parents were rejecting picture books. They skipped buying […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Close Reading, Common Core, high-stakes testing, Learning to Read, Picture Books, Wordless Picture Books

Common Core and Close Reading: Shouldn’t College Work Stay in College?

July 30, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Common Core English Language Arts uses close reading even in the early grades. What some might not realize is close reading comes from college. If you Google “college and close reading,” numerous PDF files and websites surface about how to teach college students close reading, and if you Google “kindergarten and close reading” almost an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: child development, Close Reading, College, Jean Piaget, kindergarten

Teaching With Common Core Aligned Books and Ignoring the Questions of Children

August 11, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Common Core aligned books and the drill to teach reading to young children, appears to ignore the real questions children might have about the stories they read. This could be serious, especially if the book is beyond a child’s development. If the teacher is forced to address things like syntax, story order, and facts surrounding […]

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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