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Sight-Words: the Kudzu smothering K-12
Education Views ^ | Oct. 20, 2016 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 12/07/2016 1:18:21 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice

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1 posted on 12/07/2016 1:18:21 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
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I am very familiar with good ole kudzu. It can and does take over everything. There is one area by the road I take to go to my brother's in MS where it covers everything. I was going through pictures on my other iPad recently and had pictures of it. I read a few years ago that they were experimenting with kudzu jelly.
2 posted on 12/07/2016 1:26:36 PM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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I couldn’t believe this when I first heard about it. Crippling children for life is right. If you learn via sight reading versus phonetics, you will only be able to read words that you’ve memorized, very limiting.


3 posted on 12/07/2016 1:28:36 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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I agree with the sight word BS, but fail to see the kudzu connection.

I learned phonics when I was in school, but I’m almost 60 years old. Things were different back then.


4 posted on 12/07/2016 1:28:46 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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Niggardly

Take that for sight words!


5 posted on 12/07/2016 1:29:11 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Since it grows like weeds with no care required it would appear to be a good candidate for raw material for bio-fuels.


6 posted on 12/07/2016 1:29:12 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

I grew up with the “Look, See, Say” reading program that made words composed from an alphabet into pictograms no different than Egyptian heiroglyphics or Japanese katakana.

At eighteeen I started learning to read again but this time utilizing the philosophy of phonics and of breaking words down into their parts in order to better understand them.

Almost eight years later I’d say I’m a lot further along with my reading and writing than my contemporaries who get stuck if they have to write more than 140 characters at one time.


7 posted on 12/07/2016 1:29:49 PM PST by MeganC (Hate crime: The heinous act of disagreeing with a liberal.)
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Grandson is five and in all day kindergarten. He has sight words to learn every night. All day kindergarten, sight words, homework for a kindergartener, all idiocy.


8 posted on 12/07/2016 1:30:24 PM PST by jonathonandjennifer
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Another import that seemed like a good idea at the time. Like house sparrows. :(


9 posted on 12/07/2016 1:35:34 PM PST by Buttons12
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I taught my 6 YO grandson "hochgewächs"...does that count? lol
10 posted on 12/07/2016 1:35:51 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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I assume that the oriental languages are all sight-word taught? Any one familiar enough with them to tell me?


11 posted on 12/07/2016 1:38:32 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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Sight words are the reason I pulled my oldest out of school and homeschooled him. Dreadful method for him.


12 posted on 12/07/2016 1:40:27 PM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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Never mind. I read farther down and found the answer.


13 posted on 12/07/2016 1:40:43 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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You probably had a teacher that taught phonics on the side.

“Anyone who learned to read in the last century got at least a taste of phonics, but the Dick and Jane stories actually were a calculated attack on phonics: The authors believed children learned to read best by memorizing a small handful of “sight words” and repeating them over and over — the “look/say” method. “


14 posted on 12/07/2016 1:44:56 PM PST by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Georgians can blame Jimmah Kahtah for the expansion of the other parasite Kudzu. It was, after all, one of his acts of governor to order the planting of this noxious weed to prevent soil erosion.


15 posted on 12/07/2016 1:44:56 PM PST by HomerBohn
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Wait, kudzu’s plant, and not a comic strip?


16 posted on 12/07/2016 1:46:23 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ...

Homeschool and ARTH ping.


17 posted on 12/07/2016 1:50:21 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
If you learn via sight reading versus phonetics, you will only be able to read words that you’ve memorized, very limiting.

Yes. The kids can recognize McDonalds versus Jack-In-The-Box. They're keying in on shapes and logos, without understanding the spelling differences. That's how it was for our granddaughter when she was three. Now she is four, and reading words besides being able to write them. She began to stumble at lower-case versus all upper-case, but has a handle on it now. When she goes to Kindergarten in next September, I cringe to think they would bore her with sight-word crap. She'll climb the walls in boredom. Teach at home, because the schools aren't cutting it.

18 posted on 12/07/2016 1:51:21 PM PST by roadcat
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Do you get to visit with you Grandson very much? If you possibly can, start teaching him phonics! It will probably be the best gift you co9uld give!


19 posted on 12/07/2016 1:56:29 PM PST by Aarchaeus (V)
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Our granddaughter is 5 and in kindergarten. Anticipating that phonics might not be stressed, her parents laid the ground work for her, starting early. She learned all of the letters and letter sounds well before kindergarten, and could read and write many simple words, and they taught her how to sound out. She is one of 3 students, of over 80 in the kindergarten classes in her school, who goes to an advanced reading group twice a week. At Thanksgiving, the kids were all playing “Ad Libs” (game), and the 5 year old was reading all of the cards out loud. Her parents also have read books to her, most every day of her life, as have I when she visits. When she was barely three, I remember telling her that when she learns to read, she can learn ANYTHING.

It is not for all little children, but has given her a freedom and much-reduced frustration, to be able to sound out words.

20 posted on 12/07/2016 1:57:00 PM PST by NEMDF
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