Publication Date
10-1-1978
Abstract
The most persistent hazard in skills emphasis is that we become so busy teaching them that we forget about the important goal- to develop readers and writers. I know children who can perform skills in isolation to 80 percent proficiency, 95 percent proficiency, yes, even 100 percent proficiency. But, they can't read where it counts-in the real world of books. What is even more distressing is that some of them don't even want to enter this real world because they have never had a taste.
Recommended Citation
Braun, C. (1978). A Boost for the "Basics" Through Children's Literature. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 19 (1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol19/iss1/7
