Scientists know how to teach kids to read. But are our schools using their methods?
“He got maybe 20 percent of it right,” Tzippy recalls.
She brushed her concerns aside. After all, he was only in kindergarten, and the school year had just begun. But the year progressed, and he made little progress. Then Covid hit. Chaim’s school closed and shifted to remote learning.
“Chaim’s reading got worse,” Tzippy says, “but I thought it was because he was learning over Zoom.”
Tzippy assumed Chaim’s reading would pick up once he was back in the classroom, but as a precaution, she arranged for him to be in a smaller class for first grade.
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