I am volunteering at DD public school, so we can work in the library or do reading for children from non English speaking homes. The training was fantastic. It was interesting the things this lady brought up about the lack of grammatical knowledge of children. She says you have to teach your kids (and we were talking K-5 grades) what a noun is, etc. She told us to ask the child we were reading with, what is the noun in the sentence, what is the adjective. She said kids don't know.
It was also interesting that kids today lack a lot of common vocabulary. She told us to ask them the title of the book, and they don't know title, only the "name of the book",
In the striving for creative, problem solving, we lost the basics.
Ren
