Canadian kids led the English-speaking world in PISA reading scores in 2018, behind only China, Singapore, Macao, Hong Kong and Estonia and well ahead of Ireland, New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia.
I don’t remember when or how I learned to read. I know that when I was a child, our house was filled with print material.
The ongoing debate about the best way to teach reading focused for much of that time on two methods: phonics-based and “whole language” reading programs. There have been countless arguments on each side, but never any strong enough to convince educators and policy makers that one method is clearly better than the other.
Canadian kids led the English-speaking world in PISA reading scores, behind only China, Singapore, Macao, Hong Kong and Estonia and well ahead of Ireland, New Zealand, the United States and Australia. Our complicated language also raises a whole other series of questions about whether both teaching reading and learning to read are both better accomplished individually or in groups of various sizes, as if those alternatives are available in the public school system.
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