猜一下:一个人学生时期最重要的是哪一年?答案不是初一,也不是大四,而是小学三年级。是什么让三年级的成功这么格外重要?因为这是学生从学习阅读(运用所学的字母知识解读词句)向在阅读中学习转换的一年。希望孩子们读的书不再是简单的识字课本,而是关于太阳系、美洲原住民、美国内战等内容充实的课文。没有完成快速流利阅读这一飞跃的孩子此时开始落后,而且对他们中的大多数这种差距将继续扩大。因此,三年级构成了一个关键的转型——纽约市立大学亨特学院的社会学教授唐纳德·埃尔南德斯称之为 Guess what time of year a student is most important? The answer is not the first, nor the senior, but the third grade. What makes third grade success so important? Because this is the year students learn to learn from reading (using learned alphabetical knowledge) to translate into reading. The books that children want to read are no longer simple literacy textbooks, but rich texts on the solar system, Native Americans, and the U.S. civil war. Children who did not complete the rapid and fluent reading of this leap start to lag, and the gap with most of them will continue to widen. As a result, the third year posed a key transformation - what Donald Hernandez, a sociology professor at Hunde College at New York City University called