#sight reading vs. phonics is a really old debate in literacy and none of that history was brought up | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

alpineig · 2 months ago

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sometimes you watch a video essay and it is so bad that you instantly go into "I am critically watching this" and you thank the English teachers that actually taught you how to read critically and curse the "the curtains are just blue" people

#it was like 10 minutes long #about why kids are illeterate #which literacy is an issue i care about #and then...#the premise (i dont wanna say thesis bc it was barely there)#was that sight reading bad #but it boosted test scores so it was curricula #and then proceeded to not really explain neither what sight reading was #how it got implemented #nor why #the video used as its sources teacher's tik toks and 1 article about lucy calkins literacy curriculim (which is what was being used)#and like.... goddamn i forgot video essays could be this bad #i dont even necessarily disagree with the conclusion but the lack of context and information and analysis #like 0s on the whole rubric #sight reading vs. phonics is a really old debate in literacy and none of that history was brought up #anyways i digress

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