What Kind of Sauce?
No, I'm not going to snark on Pondisco's rendezvous with poverty being destiny...
Nor am I going to snark on the notion--- and do I have this right?-- that nonfiction readalouds are the thing that's
This is critical for children from low-income homes and especially those where English is a second language. They usually come to school on Day One with smaller vocabularies and less background knowledge of the world than more advantaged kids, who tend to hear more rich and complex language at home and enjoy more opportunities for language and knowledge enrichment. If this gap remains unaddressed in school, then demographics becomes, if not destiny, then a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Nor am I going to snark on the notion--- and do I have this right?-- that nonfiction readalouds are the thing that's