[humblegunner]

(Excerpt) Read more at thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com ...

What seems to have caused you to excerpt your own material?

[rightly_dividing]

Welcome to Free Republic.

Blog pimping is frowned upon on this forum.

[Ron C.]

The left attacked student ability to read over 60 years ago with their 'Dick and Jane' series of grade-school text books for first grade students. That assault was quickly identified by my foster mother at the time, who quickly taught me phonics.

Within a few weeks I was reading books well above grade level while my classmates continued to suffer.

Dyslexia is caused by this inane attack on reading ability, which has been proven time and again.

When my own son went to public school I had to step in and teach phonics to rescue him - his dyslexia disappeared soon after - and his reading ability improved to better than grade level.

[YHAOS]

Another reason for the separation of School and State.

[x]

"The Western way" of teaching reading doesn't work ...

... the kids keep falling off the horses ...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What this country's education system needs is some good old-fashioned Dominican nuns.

[Standing Wolf]

My parents had no idea they were teaching me to read. They'd settle me in one lap or another or between them every evening for a story. At the ripe old age of three, I started to recognize words and insist on turning the pages myself. My mother told me years later she assumed I was simply memorizing stories, only to discover I was "sort of like reading" words I recognized. She was so delighted and sure I was a bona fide, qualified, certified little genius, she began to help me "sound out" words I didn't already know. She'd never heard of phonics at that point in her life: simply wanted to verify a hunch. My little sister learned to read the same way at the same age. Many and many years later, she read stories to her grandchildren, and by then was completely unsurprised they, too, learned to read long before starting school.

Given an opportunity and any small measure of encouragement, I believe, any child will painlessly and effortlessly start to read just because it's fun. Phonics beats the socks off word recognition, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone: letters represent sounds, and sounds are combined to form words.

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

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[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

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[jjotto]

Hey! I thought this was a vanity about all the semi-literate FR posts!

[urtax$@work]

is there a YouTube of kids with the phonic-learned VS non-phonic-learned at whatever best grade level to demonstrate the findings ??