EDUCATION
REPORT - Improving High School Reading and Writing
By Jerilyn Watson
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
An American expert has suggestions for helping
high school students read and write better. Paul Thomas is assistant
professor of education at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development published
Mister Thomas's suggestions in its magazine, Classroom Leadership. The
association is a nonprofit educational organization in Alexandria, Virginia.
Mister Thomas says students' reading and writing
skills continue to develop. He says the major source for learning these
skills is the traditional textbook. But he believes that textbooks are
not enough. Mister Thomas suggests that other books be used in addition
to textbooks.
Students, he says, should not read a description
of a historical person's words written by someone else. Instead, they
should read a book containing the true words of that person. He also
says movies and drama can help increase students' interest in the subject
they are reading.
Mister Thomas urges teachers to continue developing
their knowledge of the best methods for teaching, reading and writing.
He says this leads to good experiments in the classroom.
He believes that high school teachers are required
to teach too much material in reading and writing. He urges them to
call for a reduction in the material. At the same time, he suggests
using plans for teaching by concept - the central idea. For example,
he says some students he has known have reached a new level of learning.
This is because they became deeply interested in the subject they were
reading.
Mister Thomas urges teachers to make sure students
know that reading and writing are not valued only by the English department.
He says reading and writing must become an important part of learning
activities. In addition, teachers themselves should be active readers
and writers.
The magazine that published Mister Thomas's
article is one of a number of publications of the Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development. One-hundred-sixty-thousand educators belong
to the organization. They come from more than one-hundred-thirty-five
countries. The Association helps educators develop more effective ways
of teaching and learning.
This VOA Special English Education Report was
written by Jerilyn Watson.
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