#also all this is doubly true for math. kids dont understand how to notice and correct mistakes and ALSO not being able to read

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cant reblog that post about reading comprehension anymore but my addition would be: this is still an issue (source: in a teacher preparation program and many of my peers and students cant fucking read) and b) teachers are not taught how to correct these errors. In fact many times we are told /not/ to correct errors directly. Part of this is time— teachers cannot devote individual time to each student to ensure they understand everything they read (in order to avoid the ‘reading doesn’t mean understanding’ / making up a story by skimming issue), and also because many students struggle to handle emotionally being told You’re Wrong, and teachers are not always equipped to handle this. My first observation I was commended extensively by my coach for being able to tell a student she had misread a sentence and waiting until she reread it and told me what it meant (and because I had put the work in to teach these skills, this moment was productive and even empowering for this student, rather than a hit to her confidence). A terrifying amount of kids these days Cannot read in elementary school, go into middle and high school with the same exact struggles, and become adults and even teachers unable to self-correct errors because they have never been taught to recognize them. This is a huge issue of learned helplessness that spans multiple generations of schooling and I honestly have no clue how to fix it, besides pay teachers more and stick kids in front of a screen less (and give them books they actually want to read).