Tag: struggling older readers

  • Making Reading Basics a Little Easier

    Making Reading Basics a Little Easier

    A student’s age didn’t matter to Mary Jane and Lizzie when they taught freedmen in Mississippi. Kindergarten-age children through adults flocked to the new schoolhouses to learn to read. They were so motivated that some local whites began to fear that the blacks might become more educated than their own children! But it wasn’t easy.…