新英美报刊选读（第五版） 课件 unit 7 Education.pptx

;Fewer kids read for fun anymore ;Overview of the passage ;;; We read two novels and wrote two______________ that semester. The drastic difference and rigor between these two English classes angered me and spurred questions like, Where did all these white people come from? My high school was over 70 percent black and Latino, but this advanced English class had white students everywhere. This personal encounter with institutionalized racism altered my relationship with reading forever. I learned that I couldn’t depend on a school, a teacher or curriculum to teach me what I needed to know. And more out of like, ________________, than being in tellectual, I decided I would no longer allow other people to dictate when and what I read. And without realizing it, I had stumbled upon a key to helping children read. Identity. ; Instead of fixating on skills and moving students from one reading level to another, or forcing ________________ to memorize lists or unfamiliar words, we should be asking ourselves this question: How can we inspire children to identify as readers? DeSean, a brilliant first-grader I taught in the Bronx, he helped me understand how ________________ shapes learning. One day during math, I walk up to DeSean, and I say, Desean, you’re a great mathematician. He looks at me and responds, Im not a mathematician, I’m a math genius! OK DeSean, right? Reading? Completely different story. Mr. Irby, I cant read. I’m never going to learn to read, he would say. I taught Desean to read, but there are countless black boys who remain trapped in illiteracy. According to the US Department of Education, more than 85 percent of black male fourth graders are not proficient in reading. ; 85 percent! The more ________________ to reading children face, the more culturally competent educators need to be. Moonlighting as a stand -up comedian for the past eight years, I understand the importance of cultural competency, which I define as the ability to tr