Many American third graders aren't reading well — and that poses an urgent problem
— 30 minutes a day for three years. That's more time for Gilbert-Jackson to explain the confusing ways that English words work and to tailor lessons to small groups of students based on their abilities.to prepare her students for future classes, where reading well is a gateway to learning everything else.SLOW PROGRESS
Gilbert-Jackson has an important advantage: She has known Michael and most of his classmates and their parents since the first fall of the pandemic. She taught them in first grade and second grade, and followed them to third. She knows how much school many of them missed — and why. The strategy was adopted by Boyd Elementary to give students some consistency through the crisis.
When he's not in school, Michael has been dropping by his apartment complex's community center most afternoons to read books to the staff, who encourage the activity with pizza parties. His report cards show improvement. His“I see a change in him,” says Michael’s stepfather, Rico Morton, who works landscaping and manages a pizza delivery store at night. Morton says he sometimes quizzes Michael and his siblings on trivia and multiplication tables. “He’s matured.
Some, like Michael, didn’t attend Zoom classes. There are two girls who did attend classes, and appeared to be doing well at the time. But Gilbert-Jackson believes their parents were doing some if not all of their work for them, and the girls didn’t learn to read and write. These students can attend four weeks of summer school, but that likely won’t be enough to bring them up to third grade reading levels. And attendance by kids who sign up for summer school is notoriously low nationwide.
The parents of some of her struggling readers don't return her calls or show up for parent-teacher conferences. In most cases, says Gilbert-Jackson, “I think they mean well.” When he arrived in November, it appeared he needed “to learn everything from first, second and third grade,” says Gilbert-Jackson. He often puts his head down in class. “I’m getting more work out of him now. But you can tell when he hits his limit. He’s like, ‘uh-uh.’”
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