Word: children
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friedman has entertained the Clintons at his Martha's Vineyard home, where the First Couple first met Friedman's pet pig, Henrietta. The pig provided the inspiration for Mamet's children's story as well as for the hotel restaurant--Henrietta's Table--where the book signing took place...
Chall also helped shape one of the most heated arguments in elementary education. Educators have argued for decades about whether children should first learn to generally understand texts that they read or if they should concentrate on phonics, or sounding out words...
...later book, Stages of Reading Development (1983), described how the task of reading itself changes and gets harder as children grow...
According to her theory, when children first learn to read, they are reading simply to learn, focusing on "decoding" one word at a time...
Lecturer on Education Vicki A. Jacobs, who co-authored with Chall The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind (1990), said Chall constantly applied her research to her work with the literacy...