Education Issues: Reading Problems

When I was reading through the education issues, I found a section about reading problems, specifically in middleschoolers. It discussed the problem of students being unable, or having a lot of trouble reading. In fact, many students are below the 30th percentile in reading. This problem with reading is a key contributor to many students' lack of interest in school. This is definitely a problem that needs attention, and this article suggests that technology may be used in a positive way to effectively help these students who are struggling. Since the traditional methods of teaching has not worked for these kids, the internet may be a useful tool in getting kids more interested and involved in reading. There are many reading software programs that can be used for this purpose.

I think this information could be very useful in my future French classroom because if students are having trouble reading English, they are going to have an even harder time learning to read French. I could use online and reading software programs to get my students to be more interactive in reading and make reading more exciting for them. I could also try to find 0nline programs that would assist students in learning to read French as well. This would help them to learn more outside the classroom as well.


~Hayley


The link to this information can be found here: http://oc.course.com/sc/tdc5/index.cfm?action=issue&chapter=3