Posted on 11/19/2012 3:00:43 PM PST by Pleistarchos
.... From there the regression into abandoning the teaching of reading to children was rapid. Teaching “reading” came to be viewed by many to be the act of repeatedly showing children flash cards in an effort to get them to recognize words by rote memorization as opposed to actually reading the words.
Fortunately for my eldest, this had not reached the elementary schools by the mid-90s and she was taught how to read and write. My youngest, though, was met with this like a freight train and the results were comparable with a train wreck. My youngest was a hard-working student, a pretty bright kid, and had no disabilities such as dyslexia+. When I saw what was going on, I approached the teacher, who clearly had been taken in by the smoke and mirrors of this system and was a strong advocate of effectively skipping steps one and two (Learning symbols for sounds (1) and having students apply that knowledge to letters placed together and have them learn to “sound them out”(2) ). She was, sadly, a very nice and clearly bright individual. In fact, I was more disappointed that this person, who was clearly no dolt, could not have seen that this flash-recognition system not only has no place in the teaching of reading to our youth but that it essentially and utterly ignores the very system that we have and utilize for reading and writing in the first place! Her response was that, with this system, “He will learn how to read like that “(Snaps her fingers) Well, my kid is in first grade and I don’t want him reading in a snap; I want him to learn how to read......
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What seems to have caused you to excerpt your own material?
Blog pimping is frowned upon on this forum.
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.
Another reason for the separation of School and State.
I am new to this forum, but it seems to limit the body to 300 words, so I just cut a piece out to post here.
What is blog pimping?
Does that mean one should not post his/her own posts?
FR rules, articles from blogspot.com have to be excerpted.
... the kids keep falling off the horses ...
What is this blog-pimping of which you speak?
It is something with which we have no familiarity in my distant land.
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Quite right. When I was a kid, teachers were generally respected.
Are there any noble institutions remaining, unsullied by radical Leftists? I cannot name one.
All I can say, humblegunner, is that his grammar and syntax do prove his point about how low our teaching of English has sunk.
All I can say, humblegunner, is that his grammar and syntax do prove his point about how low our teaching of English has sunk.
How odd - I learned to read with the Dick & Jane books when I was four and a half, and was reading on a 12th grade level when I was nine. I attended a small private school - no one I went to school with ever had dyslexia or reading problems of any kind. We also had French reading and grammar starting in first grade, and nobody seemed to have trouble with that either.
School and State have been merged for decades....
which is big part of the problem..
The problem being voting has become rididulous..
On Nov. 6th voting has become obsolete..
It s a bit late for grousing about School and State..
However; many twits just barely WOKE UP...
Next; they will be whineing about “voter fraud”..
That horse has been gone from the barn for a few weeks..
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.
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