I'm in high school, and in a normal english class (not remedial or "special"). We were reading "The Cask of Amantillado" last week, and people took turns reading paragraphs aloud. But people were struggling with common easy words, like "critical" and "grotesque". Is that normal? I would think kids would have heard of or read those words before. There are lots of foreign kids at my school (mostly Asian), and I can understand people who are new to this country having trouble reading, but these are kids who have been here most or all of their lives, and that I've heard speak very clearly outside of class. Has anyone else had this problem? Student, teacher, parent, whoever. Is it normal for high school kids to have this much trouble reading? I thought it might be because 7H3Y TOK LY|{3 T|-|!$, but I think I read somewhere that typing like that doesn't have an effect on reading or grammar skills.
2006-09-09
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