[ti:Teacher Tries to Narrow Pandemic Reading Gaps]
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[00:00.04]The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted learning across the world.
[00:04.80]As students are back in class,
[00:07.92]some are much more behind than others.
[00:11.92]In the United States, teachers are working hard
[00:15.44]to help students make up for missed learning.
[00:18.96]Many schools are judging individual students' knowledge
[00:23.44]and making lesson plans especially for them.
[00:28.28]Richard Evans is a third-grade teacher in Niagara Falls, New York.
[00:35.40]Most of his students were sent home as kindergartners in March 2020.
[00:41.76]Many spent all of first grade learning from home.
[00:47.92]Problems did not end when schools reopened for second grade.
[00:53.60]There were face covering and social distancing requirements.
[00:58.64]And many were not used to spending full weeks of study in school.
[01:05.32]"I had kids ask me,
[01:07.24]`Why do I have to be in school for five days?'" Evans said.
[01:12.96]The pandemic affected each of Evans' 24 students differently.
[01:18.64]So, he changed his instruction
[01:21.60]depending on individual students' needs.
[01:26.00]The students in his class who had fallen behind
[01:29.88]learn to read by moving their fingers slowly beneath words.
[01:36.08]They sound the words out one syllable at a time.
[01:40.64]They are practicing skills usually learned in first grade
[01:45.60]like sounding out "ch" and "sh" sounds.
[01:50.76]As the students read,
[01:52.72]Evans notes their understanding and speaking ability.
[01:57.32]He also writes down words that students have difficulty with.
[02:03.04]And after a year of doing this and following the results,
[02:07.96]he says it appears to be working.
[02:12.40]At the start of this school year,
[02:15.60]tests showed that 15 of Evans' students
[02:20.04]were reading below grade level.
[02:22.56]Of those, nine were considered severely behind.
[02:28.64]In October, six students sat around Evans at a table.
[02:34.84]Each was reading a first-grade book
[02:37.92]about baseball star Willie Mays.
[02:41.76]"What sound does ‘-er' make?'"
[02:43.96]Evans asked one 9-year-old student.
[02:47.24]She put "hit" and "ter" together to make "hitter."
[02:52.04]Next to her, a boy said the word "high" as "hig."
[02:58.76]There was no time to waste.
[03:01.20]Third-grade students are under urgent pressure to progress
[03:05.60]from "learning to read" to "reading to learn."
[03:09.80]Studies show those who do not learn to read with ease
[03:14.80]by the end of third grade
[03:16.96]are more likely to drop out or finish high school late.
[03:22.92]One who fell behind is Ke'Arrah.
[03:26.40]She spent more than a year learning remotely early in the pandemic.
[03:32.84]Her mother, Ashley Martin, wanted her to be safe
[03:36.80]but saw how it was affecting her daughter's education.
[03:40.88]So, when Ke'Arrah went to a new school this year,
[03:45.56]she had her repeat third grade.
[03:49.16]Midway through her second time in third grade,
[03:52.72]the decision appeared to be working.
[03:56.32]Mother and daughter are now reading together at bedtime.
[04:00.68]And even small moments become reading lessons, too.
[04:06.88]"She's on the phone, I'm like: ‘Read that to me.
[04:10.44]Tell me, what does that say?'
[04:12.88]We're out somewhere: ‘Read this to me.
[04:15.72]What does it say?'" Martin said.
[04:19.80]While many students are behind,
[04:22.40]Evans also sent more students than ever
[04:25.92]to the school's honors program because of their high test scores.
[04:31.92]Those students sometimes work independently or with each other
[04:37.08]to give Evans extra time with those who need more help.
[04:43.24]Evans invested his own time in one of the neediest students.
[04:48.44]He kept a boy after school once a week for more reading.
[04:54.48]In one exercise, Evans asked the boy to close his eyes,
[04:59.40]think about the first sound of each word and sound it out.
[05:05.24]After a few weeks,
[05:07.20]the boy went from knowing just 11 common words
[05:10.76]to 66 on the third-grade reading list.
[05:15.84]Halfway through the school year,
[05:18.16]a new set of tests suggests Evans' plan is working.
[05:23.56]Fifteen of his students had met or went beyond their goals.
[05:29.68]And Ke'Arrah went from the bottom level of the class to the upper middle.
[05:36.28]I'm Dan Novak. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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