Reading First: Cautions and Recommendations

After reading this article it made me realize the flaws in teaching children how to read. School and teacher are now redefining thier approaches to teaching and learning because of inadequate research. I can not believe that a study were over estimated and under-studied I believe that someone should take the responsibility for that. The reports that claim to improve the method of teaching never exist and how can we defined the levels of reading for children. I believe that the report did not understand what reading mean because it only focus on one or two method of teaching. Some of the things that were emphasize such as phonics and what sound were before they could do any other reading is absolutely rediculous. How do you measure children reading levels base off of incomplete research and one or two method. Not all children have the same learning style and some children are much quicker learner than other. The meaning of reading varies throughout the report and there is no consistency. Over exaggerating a studies make no sense beacuse in the long run it only hurt teacher and students.