Posted on 05/17/2023 6:17:51 PM PDT by grundle
It was evil. "Sight word" reading was invented to teach some minimal reading capability to retarded people who couldn't comprehend phonics. Imposing it on people of normal or above normal intelligence is a deliberate effort to mentally cripple them.
It was evil. "Sight word" reading was invented to teach some minimal reading capability to retarded people who couldn't comprehend phonics. Imposing it on people of normal or above normal intelligence is a deliberate effort to mentally cripple them.
Looks like I had a slam-fire there ...
In schools in general, no.
It was not implemented everywhere all at once. But it did start in the 1930s. Actually a bit before but at that point it became a policy being pushed. The further out in the sticks you were or the more stubborn your school board/principle the later it arrived but arrive it did. By the mid seventies it had completely saturated the public education system.
Howdy y’all here speak southern here bouts?
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One of the things for which I am grateful to my parents is that they taught me to read, and to enjoy reading, before I started school.
They began with an easy picture book of letters with pictures of things whose names begin with the letters shown both as capitals and miniscules. Predictably, letter "A" was shown next to an apple, "B" with a ball, etc.
Then they started pointing out signs, or lettering on the packages of groceries, and showed how letters were variously shaped with the same basic design. Y'know, fonts, though they didn't use that word.
Then, they found a set of materials called "Listen and Learn with Phonics". Three LP speed 10-inch vinyl records and three small books to get the basics of vowels, consonants, and dipthongs across. Three or four times through it, and I was able to read "Cat in the Hat" level books.
They exemplified "reading for fun" and had a fairly large library for our economic class; many of them were used. Some of them, the "Great Books for Children" which included original texts of Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, and Robinson Crusoe (the last with chapter divisions inserted and updated spelling), and retellings of Arabian Nights and a prose, story style Tales from Shakespeare (both doubtless bowdlerized, but not simplified to Suess-level) were won in a drawing that gave us that year's edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (1968) and the adult "Great Books".
I was reading the "Great Books for Children" on my own by age 8; I still have them and the "Listen and Learn with Phonics" set, and have used them to teach several children of friends and relatives.
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