Quotes by Gross, Jacquelyn

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series o >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn