visual vs literary

[selah_1977]

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From: selah_1977
Subject: Re: visual vs literary
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6427] Re: visual vs literary
Date: 8/9/00 8:25 pm  (ET)

Scott wrote:

"I am not sure if you know this but, at least in the schools that I have
attended, the reading level is not based on content. It is based on words
on a page, or something similar. I have read books that talked rather
evasively (and yet it was still quite blunt) about sex and these were
5th to lower 6th grade reading level. It might also be interesting to
know the reading levels of books by popular adult authors such as Mary
Higgins Clark (7-8th grade level) and John Grisham (5-6th grade level)."

As a member of the IRA (International Reading Association), I can speak
about this.

Reading level and readiness are two very different things. When I was in
kindergarten, I was tested as reading on the 12th grade level. This does
not mean that I should have immediately begun reading Gary Jennings'
Aztec (popular that year). I did enjoy Judy Blume, Walter Dean Myers,
Beverly Cleary, and others at that age.

I've said it once on another HP list, and I'll say it until I'm blue in
the face if I have to. Just because a kid can READ it, doesn't mean that
the kid is READY for it. 'K? K.

Ebony AKA AngieJ (who is attending a DYNAMIC two week Language Arts
teacher inservice, where the peer coaches and I are infecting my
colleagues with the mental condition known as Pottermania.)