Scripted Reading Programs:Evaluations and Enlightenments
Over the past decade,early childhood education curriculum in the U.S.has played a major focus of the overall transformation,kindergartens across the country have adopted systematic,direct instruction,teaching children vocabulary,language,etc.in preschools and kindergartens.This emphasis on the use of systematic,direct instruction that follows the script of course is called scripted curriculum.After the enactment of "No Child Left Behind"Act,science-based script reading programs have prevailed in the United States,but also subjected to be questioned and criticized by scholars due to too much emphasis on academic standards.For a variety of comments,the author made some revelations.