Posted on 06/06/2020 7:01:07 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Phonics worked for me.
You were a gifted child!
I was doing letters/phonics flashcards with my kid before age one. Also, never talked baby talk. She was speaking by nine months, reading by two, and was into The Great Books by 10.
I should have done the same with math. Not her strong suit.
My kids most heard nursery song from me was the ABC song!
They learned basic Algebra in 3rd grade. Used a “Hands on Algebra” program.
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Not only did I learn to read with phonics, we were also taught Latin & learned about root words and romance languages.
Then, in fourth grade, we tackled grammar & learned how to diagram sentences.
We were taught simple tricks to distinguish homonyms, too.
‘There’ contains the word ‘here.’
‘Where’ also contains ‘here.’
Where is it located? It’s either here or there.
‘Their’ signifies ownership & contains the word ‘heir.’
‘They’re’ means ‘they are.’ It never means ‘their’ or ‘there’
It astonishes me that many FReepers never learned these things.
“ i just absorbed it”
That’s a funny story. Children do absorb like little sponges.
I got in trouble in 5th grade because teacher thought I cheated on a test, which I sorta did, but didn’t mean to.
She thought I had the answers copied & hidden in my pocket, because I wrote answers that were verbatim sentences & paragraphs from the history book.
But I had photographic memory.
I had developed the skill of not reading, but merely turning pages & taking mental snapshots.
On tests, I could close my eyes & mentally turn the pages to “look up” the answers.
I had been doing it for a couple of years, before teacher noticed.
A quick trip to the principal’s office cured me of that skill. I’ve never been able to it since.
You are right. Everyone should learn these things.
Some are clever and I’ve never heard them.
Thanks, Bruce. I’m enjoying your book.
I’m amazed at the number of FReeper posts that show the FReeper doesn’t know the difference between than and then.
Example: You’re better then me.
Homeschooling BUMP!!
One other thing: the house was full of books. I remember spending Saturday mornings in Dad's den, trying to read books the parental units thought were too hard or inappropriate.
The trap I fell into (which trips me up to this day) is that in my teens I never heard the words I was reading. _Language With Lucy_ suggests getting hold of audiobooks and books together, so that you could listen and read the material at the same time. Indeed, her YouTube channel is sponsored by an audiobook company.
Remember the “Hooked on Phonics” ads from the ‘90’s?
I helped teach my daughter using the Phonographix method it is great.
When I studied Russian, I learned that words already known were identified by sight. Of course, I learned new words phonetically. Even after more than 30 years, I quickly register even long Cyrillic Russian words from their appearance, but even 3-letter words I haven’t seen before need a little phonetic processing time. I’m not sure if this simply demonstrates that phonetics is how we learn new words, or gives some credibility to sight learning.
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I do phone support and I gotta tell you how hard it is to understand some people. They do not speak clearly.
Thank you.
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