The Progress Report: How 4 Schools Are Teaching Kids to Read – and Seeing Success

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The Progress Report: How 4 Schools Are Teaching Kids to Read – and Seeing Success

Betsy Hall stood at the front of a classroom at Johnson Magnet School in Emerald Hills. She led her pupils, who sat in small groups at circular tables, through chapters of “Uncovering the Logic of English.” The book uses systematic phonics techniques, in part, to lay out simple rules for reading and speaking English.  Hall spoke about how the suffix “ed,” was added to make verbs past tense and why it made three different sounds. She had her stud…