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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: TEACHING USING AUTHENTIC WRITING
Description: How much talking do you think young children would do if we corrected them after every utterance? What if we insisted that they pronounce every word perfectly and used only correct grammar as they were learning to speak? What if we assigned children their speaking topics and then corrected and evaluated their speaking instead of responding to their ideas? What do you think would happen? Well I can tell you: We’d create a generation of insecure, semi-psychotic mutes. And yet, this is what often happens when children are first learning to use the medium of writing as...