It happened again subbing today: read a couple Pippi Longstocking chapters to third graders, and on the whiteboard were vocab words--totally separate in their application; like they were two separate things to know/learn. For instance, there was a part here some kids were atop a burning building and Pippi figured out how to rescue them and a "stout gentleman" was questioning her as she went about doing it. Did any kid in that room know what stout meant in relation to humans? That wasn't a word on the board, but during reading time, where they read what they wanted, shouldn't there be extra points for not knowing a word, looking it up, and reporting what it means? Maybe that's why the universe wanted me here now, to end the practice of storytelling and vocab as being unrelated.
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