Phonics is how I learned to read and certainly memorized tons of words for spelling tests.
The education-industrial-complex is a *Big*Fat*Festering*Pimple. It needs to be squeezed from every side.
Keep up the pressure on informing the public about the abusive teaching practices. These methods **hurt** children and destroy futures.
I will squeeze from the side of promoting free market options.
Another Reason to Homeschool.
The teaching methods promoted in the government schools are child abuse. Wise and caring parents will do everything possible to get their children out of these **Toxic**Waste**Dumps**!
I taught all of my kids with phonics. They are all excellent readers.
I taught my son to sound out words long before school... ok, maybe not real long before... it was a game.
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PLEASE note: many boys aren’t ready to learn to read until 8 or 9. Reading is immaterial - understanding is. I homeschooled my son because he was wicked smart - asking what were essentially physics questions at the age of 5. When listening to a history lesson about the Assyrians, chariots, and the spoked wheel, he stopped driving his cars around the floor (he needed to be in the room as I taught his older sister), he stopped dead, looked up, “Oh, spoked wheel!” I had no idea he knew what that was. That could go really FAST. It COULD TURN FAST! He was so excited about the idea of chariots and spoked wheels! No need to interrupt his learning with reading. He aced college English at 16, got into an honors college, etc. Please - do not tell your sons they’re dumb if they don’t read or talk — it’s not what their brains are wired to do . . . yet! Einstein, Edison, lots of others.
Wouldn't it be loverly?
I never understood why teaching phonetically based alphabetic English as if it were hieroglyphics ever made sense to anyone.
Phonics worked for me.
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.
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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.
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?
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