“There list is great. Works every time.
http://www.nrrf.org/essay_Explicit_or_Implicit_Phonics.html";
Propaganda - we all know that making kids learn the shapes of 250,000 words is a MUCH BETTER way to learn reading. LOL.
Nice link, by the way.
How do you read?
Do you read phonetically?
I was sight reading at the age of three. My mother taught me how to read. Phonetics hadn’t caught on in America, yet. She used sight reading with me.
At age seven, I was introduced to phonetics. It confused the hell out of me.
I got around that by already by-passing the reading material that was offered in the reading lessons, because I knew all the damn words that the stupid teacher was trying to re-teach me.
In school, my reading level was always beyond my peers. I never had to take the stupid phonetics lessons because I was grades ahead of them in learning the words and in the content of reading material.
I would read the dictionary for fun, even. For hours.
If a child cannot adapt to one way of learning, I don’t know why another one can’t work instead. Who says there can be only one way to learn? Who says every child learns the same way?
This sounds ridiculous to me, like forcing my children to learn material that doesn’t matter to them, doesn’t help them, and doesn’t grow their minds. Which is exactly what is taught at school... along with phonetics.