Posted on 03/24/2017 11:21:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
If you look at how reading is taught in the U.S., children are taught stupidly and then some. Every technique that will make reading difficult and unpleasant is employed.
To start with, Sight-words are the worst way to start. Instead of learning letters and the sounds they represent, children memorize graphic designs. Rudolf Flesch said that eleven studies had been conducted; all found that phonics is superior. (So the Education Establishment has always known that if you want a society to have low literacy, you will promote Sight-words. And that is what they relentlessly do.)
Children who rely entirely on Sight-words will invariably end up functionally illiterate.
If water in the fuel line is not enough, put some sugar in the gas tank and some sand in the engine, and while you're at it, punch a hole in the radiator. Examples include:
1) The "three cueing system" teaches children to rely on semantics or context. Second, use syntax. These rules turn the English language into an elusive puzzle you need to solve word by word and sentence by sentence, every time you read..
2) Professor Frank Smith mandated that children must, when not recognizing a word, guess and then skip. Once a child has acquired the tendency to use these techniques, that child will never be a good reader.
3) Public schools have for many years told children to look for Picture Clues, as if pictures will always be there and always mean one thing. Furthermore, in looking at a picture, the child stops looking at the text.
4) Prior Knowledge is constantly emphasized, as if children could use what they already know to decode text they have not seen before. This turns reading into a puzzle, a detective story.
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When we read, we use both look/say and phonics. Kids need to learn both, and in the mid 1950’s we did learn both. But our government education system swings back between them with the one being used being prohibited. My mother, when she taught first grade in an urban school, always taught both, often having to hide her teaching the one that was at the moment out of favor by purchasing her own duplicating machine, (back in the stone age) and creating her lessons at home away from prying eyes.
And thank goodness they can’t read cursive.. only The Constitution is still in cursive and we don’t need that. This is how slaves were repressed by keeping them illiterate. Your public school child are genderless tax paying slaves.
I picked up on reading early and read often above my grade level.
The majority of the worthless school system didn’t care for it. I was treated accordingly for most of K-12. Zero love for my old school. The whole thing could burn to the ground tomorrow and I wouldn’t lose a moment’s sleep.
I also taught my kids to read and they are constant readers as adults. It is up to the parents now to make sure their kids are educated and are independent thinkers. The schools won’t.
You’d be shocked at how many blacks with college degrees are for all intents and purposes are illiterate; I work with some that do well with numbers but can’t write a coherent email - and don’t even try to get them to handwrite or print something legible.
It becomes very clear very quickly that while they may be good workers, too many have never spent much time reading (at any point in their lives). A friend that taught in an urban district here in NJ described homes without a single book.
Yes, it’s about attitude.
I grew up surrounded by books, thousands of them, never enough places to put them and my parents had a big, big house.
But none of them would have been much use if the folks were merely into decorating with books.
As it was, I learned to read before I was 3, did professional proofreading and editing work at 12, though I’m no genius according to my family (and they would know).
I was homeschooled by parents who saw the endeavor as a sharing of treasures.
Any parent can educate well with a handful of books, or a single laptop. They need only bring the regard for learning, and it’s no harder than one candle lighting another.
Picture Clues and Activating Prior Knowledge are tools to help young readers learn how to comprehend what they read. People learn better by associating things; classifying them, etc. By showing children words and text have meaning, they begin to learn from reading.
As for phonics alone, this does not work due to dialects, the fact some children just don’t hear or pick up on the subtle nuances of the sounds. Having a program that combines phonics and sight words has the best success rate.
The leftists hang onto their power by:
1. Importing illegal aliens because they abort their own.
2. Being in charge of the educational system and creating future adults that are unable to discern the difference between good and evil.
Until we drain the educational swamp, we are at risk of being converted into a Marxist, communist, socialist, totalitarian state within 20 years.
That’s because the asians and whites left in the public schools are usually the ones with Learning Disabilities or other issues that affect their ability to learn. The asians and whites with the highest capabilities are the ones found in private schools or in home school situations.
Who needs to read?
“Siri? When did Columbus discover America?”
“Alexa? When does the next episode of Jerry Springer come on?”
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The whole language methodology is so wrong that I have decided its use is to intentionally dumb down the west, and it has certainly worked.
My son grew up in California. When he was 3, we were always practicing the alphabet and he recognized all the letters, even out of order. Then we started with phonics cards, he would pick one and I would pick one to learn, every night before we would read a bedtime book. He was reading at 4. I had been told (by a very competitive co-worker) that kids in California knew how to read before they entered Kindergarten and thought we were lagging behind. Reading is essential to everything else every child will do in their lives. Sadly, I have read, in the last couple of years, that ‘White’ families are told to stop reading to their kids as it gives the kids an unfair advantage over minority children who are not read to. Socialism is bad, in every venue it invades. Keep reading to your kids........it will set the standard for their lives.
Years ago, when I started researching this incredibly twisted way of NOT teaching children to read, the first thing I read was that the whole language approach was based on the premise that children will learn to read naturally, the same way they learn to walk. I was stunned that anyone actually thought that was true, and tried discussing this with the “system”, but it’s almost a religion to them, and phonics (teaching letter to sound and spelling pattern to sound association) was almost demonic.
Rote memorization. I think by the end of 6th grade they’re expected to know 3000 Chinese characters (Kanji). On top of being able to read that many characters, they have to write them as well, and there is only one ‘right’ way to do it. If you are left handed, you have to use your right hand to write. Now they do go to school 5 1/2 days a week and their school year is significantly longer. And after school most will spend the evening in ‘cram schools’.
Their school system, which is modeled after ours, does not look upon itself as a ‘way to keep kids off the streets’ or a baby-sitting/day care service and it shows.
And the Common Core “teaching” of math is even more insane.
Lighten up, Francis.
Get lost.
Yes - the way they “teach” math is unbelievably scattered and confusing. I believe it’s called the “spiral” approach. I used to tutor children in math as well. I used a very good mastery program - the incremental approach, which makes sense. It is called Saxon Math and I ordered it from Oklahoma years ago.
My daughter and I are home-schooling her 3 children, and we are using the same materials I used years ago. My little 7 year old granddaughter completed a page of multiplication yesterday - double digit (ie. 568X37) and she’s speedy!
Some of my students used to bring me their math text books from their schools so I could help them with their homework. Honestly, if I wanted to confuse and frustrate a child, I couldn’t come up with a better way than their ridiculous math books!
Turkish is not exactly a Western language, but the current Turkish alphabet was invented by Westerners, and imposed on Turkey. It is a completely phonetic alphabet. Once you know the pronunciations of the letters, you can pronounce any word correctly. That doesn't mean you understand it, of course. The verb tenses can get pretty complicated, too.
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