The truism that students "learn to read, then read to learn," has
spawned a slew of early-reading interventions and laws. But the Common
Core State Standards offer a very different view of literacy, in which
fluency and comprehension skills evolve together throughout every grade
and subject in a student's academic life, from the first time a toddler
gums a board book to the moment a medical student reads data from a
brain scan.
In doing so, the common-core literacy standards reflect the research world's changing evidence on expectations of student competence in an increasingly interconnected and digitized world. But critics say the standards also neglect emerging evidence on cognitive and reading strategies that could guide teachers on how to help students develop those literacy skills. (Sarah D. Sparks at Education Week)
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