Assumptions about how children learn to read have been disproven by research

Re:Assumptions about how children learn to read have been di... by zdragnar on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:25PM (#16838300)

I learned far more about writing in my experience in debate than I did in any of my classes.

Learning to research a topic and write a logical argument about it is far more rewarding, and does more to develop skill, than does being assigned a book to read and writing a summary.

Writing about a single source is too easy to game, especially the classics- there's simply too much already written about them, especially when the assignment is more a summary than a thesis.

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Re:Assumptions about how children learn to read have been di... by ghaff on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:41PM (#16838391)

Supposed "study guides" existed back when I was in school but you had to get to a store and buy one. Today, I guess I assume that any student who doesn't want to read some book can just get whatever information they need about it, including analysis, with a few keystrokes.

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