{"id":8723,"date":"2016-07-19T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readtogrow.org\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2016-08-23T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:47:16","slug":"reading-difficulty-in-young-children-linked-to-later-trouble-with-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/reading-difficulty-in-young-children-linked-to-later-trouble-with-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Difficulty in Young Children Linked to Later Trouble with Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stell Simonton<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 excerpted from Youth Today | July 18, 2016<\/p>\n

Every young life starts out with promise, and the adults who love a child yearn for that child to have a bright future.<\/p>\n

But what if a simple barrier at an early age sets a child up for failure?<\/p>\n

\"ReadingDifficulty in reading is such a barrier between a grade-level reading problem and, later on, incarceration in the juvenile justice system,\u201d said Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading<\/a>, a national collaboration of foundations, nonprofits, business leaders, and communities focusing on school success for children in low-income families.<\/p>\n

Reading is so foundational, the Campaign has a nationwide effort to bring all kids to reading proficiency by the end of third grade.<\/p>\n

Cities like Orlando, Fla., have made literacy a cornerstone of their after-school and summer programs for kids. And a statewide campaign in Arkansas brings together school districts, teachers and volunteers to provide tutoring, mentoring and innovative summer literacy activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a very strong association between behavior problems and academic achievement,\u201d said Deborah Stipek, former dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.<\/p>\n

Stick and Sara Miles collaborated on research published in 2006 that followed children from first through fifth grade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that in first grade, achievement in literacy and reading predicted later aggression,\u201d said Miles, who is now research director for the nonprofit Challenge Success<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur theory was that kids who are struggling as readers \u2026\u201d develop frustration and a negative relation to school. \u201cIt sort of snowballs,\u201d Miles said.<\/p>\n

They get more off-track as they get older.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can lead to low self-esteem and an antagonistic relation with school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Chuang Wang, professor of educational research at the University of North Carolina, also has researched the link between reading and behavior.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that students who have behavior problems also have problems in reading,\u201d he said of a study involving second graders published in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you improve reading, then you might have less problem with delinquency,\u201d Wang said. \u201cThey are highly connected.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cautioned that poor reading does not cause delinquency, however. Research shows correlation but not causation.<\/p>\n

From a child\u2019s point of view<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smith, with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, describes it this way: \u201cImagine being a fourth-grader who realizes they can\u2019t read and apprehends that they are in serious trouble and no cavalry of adults is mobilizing to save them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the incentive to resist oppositional behavior \u2026 to be respectful of adults and trust adult authority?\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cYou begin to understand how a young person \u2026 could get on a path that leads them to the juvenile justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three vital areas need to be addressed according to Smith: the school readiness of young children, the chronic absenteeism that causes some children to fall behind and the loss of knowledge during the summer.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Stell Simonton \u2013 excerpted from Youth Today | July 18, 2016
\nEvery young life starts out with promise, and the adults who love a child yearn for that child to have a bright future.
\nBut what if a simple barrier at an early age sets a child up for failure?
\nDifficulty in reading is such a barrier between a grade-level reading problem and, later on, incarceration in the juvenile justice system,\u201d said Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}