Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter Braestrup of our Chicago bureau is concerned, the teaching of reading has not changed in a generation. "When I visited the second grade at Lincolnwood School," he wrote, "pupils were reading, just as I did 19 years ago, William Nida's Fleet-foot the Caveboy. And just as I did, too, one small boy stumbled over the word rhinoceros." Peter was one of 51 TIME reporters who spent a good part of the past four weeks filing in and out of classrooms and talking to teachers, students and aroused parents about whether Johnny can or cannot read...
...kindergarten and the first grade, the teacher is supposed to know as much or more about each pupil as the child's mother. She must learn about his interests and his problems, check on whether he can follow directions, see that his sight and hearing are normal, observe how he reacts to his classmates and whether he is overly diffident in "social situations." Of 100 cases of reading disability, Paul Witty once found that 14% had defective vision, 12% were in poor health, 3% had poor hearing. But more important than these physical handicaps were the mental ones: lack...
...innumerable check lists, the modern teacher begins reading instruction not so much with books and pencils as with salamanders, household pets, trips to the zoo and the park. Chicago schools, for instance, have "storytelling" and "tell-and-do" times. Many cities use "experience charts." One San Francisco first grade has a pupilrun "newspaper" which features such headlines as YESTERDAY LAWRENCE PLAYED BALL. The whole idea is to give the children a common experience and then let them dictate a story about it to the teacher. The story appears in the newspaper or on the experience chart, and the children...
...rural school," says Superintendent Paul West of Fulton County, Ga.. "where there were 17 children in one class with IQs ranging from 48 to 152." Reading ability varies accordingly. In 1944, St. Louis found that of its 7,380 eighth-graders, 138 read below fourth-grade level, 353 at fourth, 3,439 below eighth and 2,909 above. The big question: How can a teacher cope with so many different levels...
...titles published, there was the usual quota of fiascoes, but those that made the grade did so in great style. Nor were things too bad for the reader. No one book would make 1955 memorable, but there were enough good ones in all departments to have kept a discriminating reader busy...