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Stoneage89 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

ability of reading of a boy with sixth grade istruction

Hi, for Mortimer J. Adler the ability of reading for a boy it stop to sixth grade. But, what type of ablility do have one in sixth grade?
  

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Mortimer J. Adler never recommended that students stop in 6th grade. But a sixth grader should be able to read a wide variety of materials on many subjects.

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Mortimer J. Adler never recommended that students stop in 6th grade.
But a sixth grader should be able to read a wide variety of materials on many subjects. The student should be able to understand the ideas in the material, and summarize the text in their own words.
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Hi AlpheccaStars, I don't mean say that Adler recommend that students stop in 6th grade, but in the preface of the Adler book I understand that the school engages to develop to reading of students mainly in the elementary school. That I want know is what are the abilities to reading of the a elementary school student ?
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stoneage89What I want know is what are the reading abilities of the an elementary school student ?
Read my last post.
Does this help?
https://www.flocabulary.com/6th-grade-vocabulary-wo
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Hi AlpheccaStars, you give me a list of difficult words for a 6th grade student. You say that a student should be able to understand the ideas in the material, and summarize the text in their own words. So for Mortimer J. Adler What skill of reading in general should have a student?
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stoneage89What skill of reading in general should have a student?
What general reading skills should a student have?

Comprehension (Understanding what they are reading).
Fluency in reading silently and aloud (Ability to sound out new words; Mastery of regular phonics )
Using written text to build vocabular
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So, fluency in reading silently and aloud, you learn it in elementary school. Using written text to build vocabulary you can make it if most reading and mark the unknow words. But don't ever you understand what read. So you use the your knowing that you have for understand new topic. May be Adler mean that the school don't give good tools to study new topic in independent way.
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So, fluency in reading silently and aloud, you learn it in elementary school. Yes, for grade-level texts.

Using written text to build vocabulary. Yes, the word list I linked in a previous post was taken from 6th grade reading materials.
you can make it if most reading (? I don't understand your comment here.) and mark the unknown words.
But don't eve
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Hi AlpheccaStars, the word list that you linked in a previous post is used don't only for reinforce your vocabolary, but that word list is used also for reinforce your pronunciation, so a boy don't know generally how to pronounce a new word. Is it right?
Then when I say that you can build vocabolary reading very much, I mean that when you see a unknow word generally you serch its mean on voca
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so a boy doesn't know generally how to pronounce a new word. Is it right?
Phonics skills teach you how to pronounce a new word. Phonics is taught in 6th grade (and earlier.)

In Phonics, you learn that a word is composed of syllables. If you can pronounce each syllable, you can pronounce the whole word. Then you can look in a dictionary which gi
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Nota: Hi AlpheccaStars, if you have Phonics skills, you can pronounce a new word in correct way. It was taught you in 5-6th grade. Is it true, no? But how can a child in first years of elemetary school pronounce a new word?
Sorry I have made often some error in write. I will do more attention. In your last post you have written "Phonics skills teach you how..." but the verb "teach" in your se